Selected quotes from the Computist's International collection:
Computer quotes here, sillier ones here, philosophical quotes here.
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.
(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.
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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