In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.                 
-- Charles Forsythe

"Life is context sensitive." -- Dr Venter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556984.stm

"Security of a chain is weaker than the weakest link."
-- Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier
http://www.counterpane.com/pki-risks-ft.txt

Why try to reinvent the wheel, if it's already there.

Tea & Coffee Percolation/Infusion Protocol, aka TCP/IP.

"Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software
industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations."
-- Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine

Resistence is futile... you will be migrated !

Linux - Life is too short for reboots.

"The glass is not half full, nor half empty. The glass is just too big."

Why does it speak when noone listens ?

"If you are not in my dictionary, you are not in my universe. What would
you like to be replaced with ?"
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000718&mode=classic

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught
and shot now!" -- Zaphod Beeblebrox

After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny
things network

Brackets contain world's first nanosig, highly magnified: [.]

"How many trees did *you* plant ?" /me

If the only tool you've got is an axe, every problem looks like fun!

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck, is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners...

"Proof by Intimidation." - Joost van Baal

If you need to interpret my post, then you don't get it.

"Support terrorism, use Windows." --O.B. [linuxplanet.com]
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3796/

My other computer is your windows box.

"I don't hate Windows, I feel like Windows hates me." -- startx

How the fuck are we going to get off this damn rock in the middle of nowhere?

"May the --force be with you." -- <[tafkam]>

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could
only have originated in California." -- Edsger Dijkstra

"Always design your programs as a member of a whole family of programs,
including those that are likely to succeed it" -- Edsger Dijkstra

"Separate Concerns" -- Edsger Dijkstra

"A Programming Language is a tool that has profound influence on our
thinking habits" -- Edsger Dijkstra

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full
humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the
plague" (from 1972 Turing Award Lecture) -- Edsger Dijkstra

"Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs
without thinking of them as pieces of executable code" -- Edsger Dijkstra

"Program testing can best show the presence of errors but never their
absence" -- Edsger Dijkstra

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers
they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger
Dijkstra

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra.

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense." -- Edsger Dijkstra.

"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just
to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each
other's programs, bugs included." -- Edsger Dijkstra. 

If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not
start writing it. (Esdger Dijkstra's Law of Programming Inertia)

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -- Derek Bok 

"EVERYBODY knows that class M planets almost always end up smoking husks
because the inhabitants attempt to discover the mass of the higgs boson
particle and waste themselves." -- Sevn

"GPL: Free as in Herpes" -- Ceejayoz

"Slashdot - News for Herds. Stuff that Splatters." -- Salamander

"Information Diffusion Rule of Thumb: The extent of information
diffusion is divided by the effort required to navigate the name space."
-- Hans Reiser

"... deze buien moet U niet geloven." -- Erwin Krol

"Turning coffee into software since 1990." -- Chris BeHanna

"The very young not always do what they are told." -- The Nox

"Blessed are Those who Go Around in Circles, for They shall be named Wheels"

"Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way."
-- Daniele Vare

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing
left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Give me enough #ifdefs and a place to sit, and I can support anything"
-- Aristotle

"Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!"
-- Rob MacGregor

" do() || do_not(); !try(); "
-- devphaeton

"FreeBSD: Open Source without that fishy smell"
-- Brandybuck

"It also explains why paper clips just lie there while you look at them,
but as soon as you turn your back, they run away, giggling wildly,
and transform themselves into coat hangers."
-- Pav Lucistnik

"We haven't conquered other worlds yet, so we just beat the crap out of
each other"
-- Farscape

"make install -not war"
-- Doc Ruby

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea."
-- RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
 In practice there is."
-- Yogi Berra

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win"
- Mohandas Gandhi

"If elvis was still alive, he'd be dead by now"
-- respen

"Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE."
-- Brooks

"Without order, nothing can exist. Without chaos, nothing can be created."
-- Parabyte

"A million lemmings can't be wrong."
-- Anne Thwacks

"DMCA. Making numbers illegal for your protection since 2001."
-- fishbert

"If we do not achieve "technological omnipotence" then we will simply
cease to be."
-- vertinox

"Security is like an onion. It's made up of several layers. And it makes
you cry."
-- Erwin Lansing

"On a clear disk, you can seek forever."
-- tylernt

"DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'"
-- mrchaotica

"I'm not a computer programmer, but I play one at work."
-- Billosaur

"To this day, many C programmers believe that 'strong typing'
just means pounding extra hard on the keyboard."
-- Peter van der Linden

"I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."
-- arun_s

"Law of Conservation of Perversity:
  we can't make something simpler without making something else more complex"
-- Norberto Meijome

"Respect the laws of physics, for the laws of physics have no respect for you."
-- MassEnergySpaceTime

"Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF"
-- say

"In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
- Terry Pratchet

"If I'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said
 'A faster horse.'"
-- Henry Ford

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. "NO" is the answer."
-- KWTm

"God is real, unless declared as integer."
-- Bocha

"We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills..."
-- Flemming Jacobsen

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it."
-- Brian W. Kernighan

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
-- Dragonslicer

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- The_Radiation_Specialist

"I'd like to have your brain for my pet.. if you don't mind."
-- Anonymous

"This country has a coin-operated government in all areas."
-- gthrank

"It could be worse... 'Meesa seen things, yousa wouldn believe!'"
-- Robber Baron

"It was the best extra 22 nanoseconds I've ever spent with the kids"
-- Van Baak
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_hackers

"If you only knew the power of the dark sky"
-- Mitzi

Why space travel ?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: "The Earth is the cradle of mankind; but no-one
stays in the cradle forever."
Robert A Heinlein: "The Earth is simply far too small and fragile a
basket for the human race to continue to keep all of its eggs in."
Larry Niven: "The dinosaurs had no space programme."

"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin Franklin

"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5

"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
themselves upon execution."
-- Robert Sewell

"America can be counted on to do the right thing; After she has
exhausted all the other options."
-- Winston Churchill

"Organized religon is just an attempt to control people who are looking
for the answer to the question 'Why?'"
-- Excel11391

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
-- Albert Einstein"

"Never argue with irrationality, its unreasonable."
-- peerce

Hans Lambermont (remove .NOSPAM from address) / back to my homepage, August 2008