Our industry is an embarrassment. When a Honda engineer goes to a party,
it would be rare for another guest to say "Oh, you design cars for Honda? You
know, last Friday my husband's Accord just exploded while he was pulling out
of the garage." But admit that you're a programmer and you can't get out of
the room without hearing about somebody's crashed Macintosh or Windows
machine. Furthermore, to the extent that there have been any software
innovations in the last 40 years, the Microsoft Monopoly either gets credit
for them or keeps them from getting into users' hands. - Philip Greenspun
It's almost like we're doing Windows users a favor by charging them money
for something they could get for free, because they get confused
otherwise. - Larry Wall, creator of Perl
A man is only as old as the woman he feels. - Groucho Marx
Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT. - Jonathon Gilphin
Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman
numerals.
I was having trouble developing an MFC application. I forget what the
actual issue was, but when I called Microsoft's tech support for assistance, I
was asked a number of questions about the configuration of my project. One of
the things they wanted to know was what options I had chosen in the AppWizard.
I told them I didn't use AppWizard because I preferred to code everything by
hand. There was a long silence, then the MS representative said, "You can do
that?" - Milo Hyson
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++
??? - Richard A. O'Keefe
If I were a Microsoft public relations person, I would probably be sobbing
on a desk right now. - Robin Miller
If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than
five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same
principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful
feature, that. - Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation
Microsoft has no comment at this time - Microsoft public relations
spokes person
Caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the
person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign. -
Philip Machanick
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers
who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we
live. - Peter Cochrane
Beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone. - Larry Wall
One important issue to note under Windows 95 specifically is that Windows
95 leaks about 200 bytes of main memory for each thread creation. - George
Reese, author of MySQL & mSQL, speaking on running daemons on Windows 95
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you're providing support for a
lifetime. - Michael Sinz
In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you
blow off your whole leg. - Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++
"Computer science is to science as plumbing is to hydrodynamics."
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. - Dennis M. Ritchie,
creator of C and UNIX
It doesn't matter who you are. Most of the smartest people work for
somebody else. - Bill Joy
Teach a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on
fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. - John A. Hrastar
Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you
know. - Sassan Tat
