Selected quotes from the Computist's International collection:

Computer quotes here, sillier ones here, philosophical quotes here.

Computer quotes:



If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. -- Edsgar Dijkstra.


A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -- Leslie Lamport.

Sillier quotes:



(For Unix weenies only:)
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc
-- Steve Eckert


Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in. -- Larry Wall


Lisp in action is like a finely choreographed ballet. Ada in action is like a waltz of drugged elephants. C in action is like a sword dance on a freshly waxed floor. -- Chris Ross.

Philosophical quotes:



Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a flame. -- Yeats.


The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -- John Ruskin.


The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. -- John Burroughs.


All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. -- Sir Walter Scott.


We are continually faced with a series of opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -- John W. Gardner.


I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. -- Paul Schrader.


You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi.


When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell.


No, try not. Do....or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, Jedi Master.


Other miscellaneous quotes.

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