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Please try again later. + ", + " + You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could + know how seldom they do. — Olin Miller + ", + " + Computer science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing + to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning + ", + " + God doesn’t play dice. — Albert Einstein + ", + " + As modern times promote hasty eating to a large extent, it is not surprising to + learn that a great astronomer said: “Two things are infinite, as far as we know + — the universe and human stupidity.” Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision + of Freud’s Theory and Method, Frederick S. Perls + ", + " + Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, + because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. + We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some + things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns–the ones we don’t + know we don’t know. — Donald Rumsfeld + ", + " + Everything is local. + ", + " + I read it on the Internet, it has to be true! + ", + " + A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions + that make it fail. — Jerry Ogdin + ", + " + If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — + Anatole France + ", + " + “And who better understands the Unix—nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it + he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of + the task, gains merit by not coding?” Upon hearing this, the programmer was + enlightened. + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + Immortality — a fate worse than death. — Edgar A. Shoaff + ", + " + Intellect annuls Fate. + So far as a man thinks, he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson + ", + " + Let’s call it an accidental feature. — Larry Wall + ", + " + In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes + ", + " + A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I + believe everything positively stinks. — Lew Col + ", + " + Ah, but a man’s grasp should exceed his reach, + Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning, — “Andrea del Sarto” + ", + " + All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri + ", + " + All men know the utility of useful things; + but they do not know the utility of futility. — Chuang—tzu + ", + " + And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the + hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran + ", + " + Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than ‘Microsoft,’ don’t you? — + Patrick Volkerding + ", + " + Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and I’m blinded by a bright, white + light. It’s God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In + a booming voice, He says: “THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM + FOR THE 386”. — Matt Welsh + ", + " + Never trust an operating system you don’t have sources for. — Unknown + Source + ", + " + Parkinson’s Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision, the + good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. + ", + " + Reliable source: The guy you just met. + ", + " + Thyme’s Law: Everything goes wrong at once. + ", + " + Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. — Tom Christiansen + ", + " + You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, + for instance. — Franklin P. Jones + ", + " + To be is to program. + ", + " + There’s no easy quick way out, we’re gonna have to live through our + whole lives, win, lose, or draw. — Walt Kelly + ", + " + Illiterate? Write today for free help! + ", + " + Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. + ", + " + Hlade’s Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person — + they will find an easier way to do it. + ", + " + Davis’ Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush—hour traffic + is directly proportional to 1.5 times the amount of extra time + you allow to arrive on time. + ", + " + Resisting temptation is easier when you think you’ll probably get + another chance later on. + ", + " + Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more. + ", + " + Turnaucka’s Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its + electrical cord. + ", + " + Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. + Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence + and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the + certainty of corruption by authority. — Lord Acton + ", + " + We can predict everything, except the future. + ", + " + A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many + bad measures. — Daniel Webste + ", + " + Agnes’ Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. + ", + " + Weiler’s Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it + himself. + ", + " + Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained + by stupidity. + ", + " + Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take + Hofstadter’s Law into account. + ", + " + Murphy’s Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory. + ", + " + Pryor’s Observation: How long you live has nothing to do + with how long you are going to be dead. + ", + " + Whitehead’s Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked. + ", + " + G. B. Shaw’s Law: Those who can — do. + Those who can’t — teach. + Martin’s Extension: Those who cannot teach — administrate. + ", + " + Johnson’s First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the + most inconvenient possible time. + ", + " + Guru: A computer owner who can read the manual. + ", + " + First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the + difference. + ", + " + Woodward’s Law: A theory is better than its explanation. + ", + " + Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. + ", + " + Hildebrant’s Principle: If you don’t know where you are going, any road will + get you there. + ", + " + Committee: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group + decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen + ", + " + “The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. + The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.” + — Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the + Local Food Front + ", + " + “The command—line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. + “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a + graphical user interface.” + Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at + the master’s hand. + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to + repair it.” + The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities. + How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?” Without + saying a word, + the master raised his staff and brought it down hard upon + the bare left foot of the novice, breaking his smallest toe. + — Codeless Code + ", + " + “Master Foo, I am gravely troubled. In my youth, those who followed the Great + Way of Unix used + software that was simple and unaffected, like ed and mailx. Today, they use vim + and mutt. + Tomorrow I fear they will use KMail and Evolution, and Unix will have become + like + Windows — bloated and covered over with GUIs.” + Master Foo said: “But what software do you use when you want to draw a + poster?” + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + “Master Foo,” he asked “why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs? + And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?” + Master Foo smiled, and said “When your house is well constructed, + there is no need to add pillars to keep the roof in place.” + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become + annoyed when + I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming + language. Why is this so?” + Master Foo stood, and began to pace across the office floor. + The recruiter was puzzled, and asked “What are you doing?” + “I am learning to walk,” replied Master Foo. + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + “Is your code ever completely without stain and flaw?” demanded Master Foo. + “No,” admitted the zealot, “no man’s is.” + “The wisdom of the Patriarchs” said Master Foo, “was that they knew they + were fools.” + Upon hearing this, the zealot was enlightened. + — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + Lewis’s Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn’t + belong to anyone, ever. + ", + " + Dow’s Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, + the greater the confusion. + ", + " + Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. + — Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” + ", + " + Slous’ Contention: If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it. + ", + " + Udall’s Fourth Law: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences + you + don’t like. + ", + " + Sacher’s Observation: Some people grow with responsibility — others merely + swell. + ", + " + Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates is lunch. + ", + " + Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the + feeling that + there is nothing important to do. + ", + " + Boucher’s Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music + several octaves higher than originally written. + ", + " + Booker’s Law: An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. + ", + " + Williams and Holland’s Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven + by statistical + methods. + ", + " + Burke’s Postulates: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking + about. + Don’t create a problem for which you do not have the answer. + ", + " + Barth’s Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people + into two + types, and those who don’t. + ", + " + Hanson’s Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always + too many days + before Saturday. + ", + " + Peers’ Law: The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. + ", + " + Stone’s Law: One man’s “simple” is another man’s “huh?” + ", + " + Government’s Law: There is an exception to all laws. + ", + " + Hitchcock’s Staple Principle: The stapler runs out of staples only while you + are trying to + staple something. + ", + " + Finagle’s Seventh Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. + ", + " + Chism’s Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government + project is + precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it. + ", + " + Chisolm’s First Corollary to Murphy’s Second Law: When things just can’t + possibly get any worse, they will. + ", + " + Murphy’s Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will. + (2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. + (3) Everything takes longer than you think it will. + ", + " + Carswell’s Corollary: When ever man comes up with a better mousetrap, + nature invariably comes up with a better mouse. + ", + " + Putt’s Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: + Those who understand what they do not manage. + Those who manage what they do not understand. + ", + " + Rule of the Great: When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep + thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. + ", + " + There must be more to life than having everything. — Maurice Sendak + ", + " + In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. — Dr. Laurence J. Peter + ", + " + The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; + and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of + anarchy and despotism. + — Percy Bysshe Shelley + ", + " + While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own + form of misery. + ", + " + He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion + ", + " + How come everyone’s going so slow if it’s called rush hour? + ", + " + Work expands to fill the time available. — Cyril Northcote Parkinson, “The + Economist”, 1955 + ", + " + Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. + Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done. + ", + " + Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. + ", + " + To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard + ", + " + To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three + persons, two of them absent. + ", + " + If a thing’s worth doing, it is worth doing badly. — G. K. Chesterton + ", + " + There’s no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman + ", + " + The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to + fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to + disregard the first lesson of economics. — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny + can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he + confuses it with feeling. — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own + ignorance. — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. + — Maslow’s Golden Hammer + ", + " + Ninety percent of everything is crap. — Theodore Sturgeon + ", + " + It’s easier to take it apart than to put it back together. — Washlesky + ", + " + Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to + know the answers. — Gene Wolfe, “The Claw of the Conciliator” + ", + " + Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus. + ", + " + You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra + ", + " + Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back. + ", + " + In war, truth is the first casualty. — U Thant + ", + " + The hardware designer said: “It is rumored that you are a great programmer. + How many lines of code do you write per year?” + Master Foo replied with a question: “How many square inches of silicon do you + lay out per year?” — The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + The student said: “How, then, are those enlightened in the Unix Way to return + to the Windows world?” + Master Foo said: “To return to Windows, you have but to boot it up.” — + The Unix Koans of Master Foo + ", + " + The master considered this, and said: “It is certain that we could forgo + testing altogether, if we knew our code to be perfect. How, then, may we + achieve perfection?” + “Through practice,” said one monk. + “Through diligent study,” said another. + “Through the appeasement of the proper gods,” said a third. + — Codeless Code + ", + " + If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — + Simone de Beauvoir + ", + " + Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick + to possibilities; truth isn’t. + — Mark Twain + ", + " + There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the + truth without lying. — Josh Billings + ", + " + “They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level dwelling + preferable. + The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the + blasts of fortune. + Buildings have need of a good foundation, that lie so much exposed to the + weather.” + — Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking + ", + " + “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.” + — Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking + ", + " + The woods are lovely, dark and deep. + — Robert Frost + ", + " + Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version + of glibc installed, + and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’. + — “Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon” from Charlie Harvey + ", + " + The words fly away, the writings remain. + ", + " + Rule of Life Number One — Never get separated from your luggage. + ", + " + He who knows nothing, knows nothing. + But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. + And he who knows someone whose friend’s wife’s brother knows nothing, + he knows something. Or something like that. + ", + " + “The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will + never solve — politics.” — Gavin Baker + ", + " + (1) The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. + (2) No problem should ever have to be solved twice. + (3) Boredom and drudgery are evil. + (4) Freedom is good. + (5) Attitude is no substitute for competence. + — Eric S. Raymond + ", + " + “Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. + Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.” + — Unknown + ", + " + “No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.” + — Unknown + ", + " + “We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s + got a responsibility.” + — Newton Minow + ", + " + “A library is infinity under a roof.” + — Gail Carson Levine + ", + " + “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” + — Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics + ", + " + “You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” + — Navajo Proverb + ", + " + “During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel + business.” + — Mark Twain + ", + " + The 1% Rule: The number of people who create content on the Internet represents + approximately + 1% of the people who view that content. + ", + " + Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the + world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan + ", + " + I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World + War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein + ", + " + Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? — Steven Wright + ", + " + Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. + Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading + it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving + from where you left them to where you can’t find them. + ", + " + If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. — Norm + Schryer + ", + " + It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. — + Aeschylus + ", + " + Olmstead’s Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than + done. + ", + " + I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a + knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t seem to work. — Gallagher + ", + " + Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means + for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley + ", + " + Anthony’s Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least + accessible + corner of the workshop. + ", + " + Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. — Hans Liepmann + ", + " + Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling? + Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have. + ", + " + “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things + we don’t know yet.” — Ambrose Bierce + ", + " + If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot + of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds + ", + " + Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree + of life. + — Proverbs + ", + " + If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the + tree falleth, there it shall be. + — Ecclesiastes + ", + " + “A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we + go in the scale of life, + the greater is the capacity for suffering.” + — Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking + ", + " + “The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.” + — Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking + ", + " + “All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not + filled.” + — Ecclesiastes + ", + " + The Fifth Law of Computer Programming: Any given program will expand to fill + all available memory. + ", + " + Corcoroni’s First Law of Bus Transportation: The bus that left the stop just + before you got there is your bus. + ", + " + Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you’re + certain you’re finished with, + you will need it instantly. + ", + " + The First Discovery of Christmas Morning: Batteries not included. + ", + " + Corcoroni’s Third Law of Bus Transportation: All buses heading in the opposite + direction drive off the face of + the earth and never return. + ", + " + Durrell’s Parameter: The faster the plane, the narrower the seats. + ", + " + Ettorre’s Observation: The other line moves faster. + Corollary: Don’t try to change lines. The other line — the one you were in + originally — will then move faster. + ", + " + Ehrman’s Commentary: Things will get worse before they will get better. Who + said things would get better? + ", + " + Ducharme’s Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. + ", + " + Dijkstra’s Prescription for Programming Inertia: If you don’t know what your + program is supposed to do, you’d better + not start writing it. + ", + " + Commoner’s First Law of Ecology: No action is without side—effects. + ", + " + Cohn’s Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the + less time you have to do anything. + Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting + on the nothing you are doing. + ", + " + Law of Permanence: Political power is as permanent as today’s newspaper. + Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any + state was today. + ", + " + Clarke’s Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable + from magic. + ", + " + Cheops’s Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. + ", + " + Hacker’s Law: The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a + nation or an + organization to action is one of mankind’s oldest illusions. + ", + " + Harris’s Lament: All the good ones are taken. + ", + " + Issawi’s Law of the Conservation of Evil: The total amount of evil in any + system remains constant. + Hence, any diminution in one direction — for instance, a reduction in poverty + or unemployment — + is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution. + ", + " + Kelley’s Law: Last guys don’t finish nice. + ", + " + Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is + absolutely true except for that + rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. + ", + " + Kohn’s Second Law: Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory + tries to repeat it. + ", + " + Lowrey’s Law of Expertise: Just when you get really good at something, you + don’t need to do it any more. + ", + " + Lynch’s Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves. + ", + " + Martin’s Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged + communication between + different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. + ", + " + Cahn’s Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. + ", + " + Horngren’s Observation: The real world is a special case. + ", + " + Merkin’s Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue. + ", + " + Comins’ Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them + Benjamin Franklin said it first. + ", + " + Rosenfield’s Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped. + ", + " + Cunningham’s Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not + to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer. + ", + " + Connected. Take this REPL, brother, and may it serve you well. + ", + " + First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. + ", + " + Leahy’s Law: If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right. + ", + " + Luce’s Law: No good deed goes unpunished. + ", + " + Putt’s Corollary: Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence + inversion. + ", + " + Reed’s Law: The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales + exponentially with the size of the network. + ", + " + We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: + premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up + our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be + lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look + carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been + identified. — Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with Go To Statements + ", + " + The Pareto Principle: Most things in life are not distributed evenly. + ", + " + The KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid. + ", + " + Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. + ", + " + Are we consing yet? + ", + " + The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter + ", + " + “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” + — Mark Twain + ", + " + Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns. + ", + " + Historian’s Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear + inevitable by a competent historian. + ", + " + Gretzky’s Truism: You miss 100% of the shots you never take. + ", + " + Gresham’s Law: Bad money drives out good. + ", + " + Glasow’s Comment: There’s something wrong if you’re always right. + ", + " + Franklin’s Rule: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be + disappointed. + ", + " + Fetridge’s Law: Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, + especially when people are looking. + ", + " + Farkus’ Law: There will always be a closer parking space than the one you + found. Goodman’s Corollary: But if + you go looking for it, someone else will already have taken it. + ", + " + Hagenbach and Nuremberg’s Poor Defense: “I was only following orders, sir. An + order is an order.” + ", + " + McIntyre’s First Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you + could be wrong. + ", + " + Those who don’t understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. + — Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael + Fitzgerald + ", + " + Hoare’s Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem + struggling to get out. + ", + " + Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has + been discontinued. + ", + " + Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. + ", + " + Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. + ", + " + It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. + What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, + devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self—critical? — Alan + Perlis + ", + " + Non—Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative + results. + Positive expectations yield negative results. + ", + " + Gerrold’s Laws of Infernal Dynamics: (1) An object in motion will always be + headed in the wrong direction. + (2) An object at rest will always be in the wrong place. + (3) The energy required to change either one of these states will always be + more than you wish to expend, + but never so much as to make the task totally impossible. + ", + " + Kinkler’s First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. + ", + " + Kinkler’s Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. + ", + " + There are no games on this system. + ", + " + Committee Rules: (1) Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped a beginner. + (2) Don’t say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being + wise. + (3) Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating the others. + (4) When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. + (5) Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular — it’s + what everyone is waiting for. + ", + " + Ogden’s Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. + ", + " + “About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” + — Herbert Hoover + ", + " + Chesterton’s Fence: Reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the + existing state of affairs is understood. + ", + " + I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the + battle to the strong, neither yet bread to + the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of + skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes + ", + " + Schmidt’s Law: If you mess with a thing long enough, it’ll break. Wyszkowski’s + Second Law: Anything can be made to work + if you fiddle with it long enough. + ", + " + Hoover’s Affirmation: Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national + debt. + ", + " + Sueker’s Note: If you need “n” items of anything, you will have “n-1” in + stock. + ", + " + Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. — + Margaret Mead + ", + " + DRY: Don’t repeat yourself. WET: Write everything twice. + ", + " + Isaiah’s Observation: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice + standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, + and equity cannot enter. + ", + " + The best things in life are for a fee. + ", + " + “It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: + freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the + wisdom never to use either.” — Mark Twain + ", + " + The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: The greatest single aid to distance is for + the disc to be going in a + direction you did not want. (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.) — Dan + Roddick + ", + " + Of course you have a purpose — to find a purpose. + ", + " + Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself — and then a couple + of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman + ", + " + Connected. Hacks and glory await! + ", + " + Connected. May the source be with you! + ", + " + Survivorship Bias: Concentrating on the people or things that “survived” some + process and inadvertently + overlooking those that didn’t because of their lack of visibility. + ", + " + Curse of Knowledge: When better informed people find it extremely difficult + to think about problems from + the perspective of lesser informed people. + ", + " + “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — + Vladimir Lenin + ", + " + Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make + a person educated, + any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. + ", + " + What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. + ", + " + Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publius Syrus + ", + " + Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. + ", + " + Power corrupts. And big power corrupts bigly. + ", + " + Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, + give him power. — Abraham Lincoln + ", + " + Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature. + ", + " + If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from? + ", + " + When in doubt, use brute force. — Ken Thompson + ", + " + Grelb’s Reminder: Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above + average drivers. + ", + " + Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along comes a faster rat! + ", + " + The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more + important to do. + ", + " + To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. — Robert Heller + ", + " + Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions + seldom black or white. + Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the + other side to be totally the winner. + The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side + has all the facts. + Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from + political motivation. + Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth. — + Stephen R. Schwambach + ", + " + One reason why George Washington Is held in such veneration: He never blamed + his problems + on the former Administration. — George O. Ludcke + ", + " + If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a + sound? + If you didn’t get caught, did you really do it? + ", + " + Rhode’s Law: When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, + circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, + indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, + induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically + guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political + advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, + or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and + unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered + to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely + so, until such time as it + becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe. + ", + " + The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody + appreciates how difficult it was. + ", + " + Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It’s the “Un—Operating System”: + unreliable, + unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more + frustrating + than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. — The Unix + Haters Handbook + ", + " + All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. + ", + " + Murphy’s Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in + which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, + unprepared for, will promptly develop. + ", + " + Miksch’s Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. + ", + " + Irrationality is the square root of all evil. — Douglas Hofstadter + ", + " + Jone’s Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to + blame it on. + ", + " + Parkinson’s Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to + increase regardless + of the amount of work to be done. + ", + " + Wicker’s Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. + ", + " + Mr. Cole’s Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the + population is growing. + ", + " + Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. + ", + " + “If you give someone your name, they can take your soul. If you give them + your birthday, + they can control your life.” — Yuuko Ichihara + ", + " + King Solomon’s Lament: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall + there be any + remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. + ", + " + Friendship: A ship big enough to carry + two in fair weather, but only one in foul. — The Devil’s Dictionary + ", + " + “You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell + lies?” + — Buster the Myth Maker + ", + " + “We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm + depend on us. + Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we + drink the milk and eat those apples.” + — George Orwell’s Animal Farm + ", + " + Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that + needs heroes. + — Bertolt Brecht, “Life of Galileo” + ", + " + User: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. — The New Hacker’s + Dictionary + ", + " + Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. — Dijkstra + ", + " + Gumperson’s Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely + proportional to its desirability. + ", + " + It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall + ", + " + Logic doesn’t apply to the real world. — Marvin Minsky + ", + " + Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. — French Proverb + ", + " + It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. + ", + " + Leibowitz’s Rule: When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you + hold the hammer with both hands. + ", + " + When the government’s remedies don’t match your problem, you + modify the problem, not the remedy. + ", + " + Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. — + Irene Peter + ", + " + Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a + cliche is a + sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to + say, “The black + cat is always the last one off the fence.” I have no idea what she meant, but + at one time, + it was undoubtedly true. — Solomon Short + ", + " + When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m + beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow + ", + " + Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of + facts is no more a science than a heap + of stones is a house. — Henri Poincaré + ", + " + Insanity is the final defense. + ", + " + Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering: Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If + everything did, you’d be out of a job. + ", + " + Swipple’s Rule of Order: Whoever shouts the loudest has the floor. + ", + " + There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A + Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of + Political Struggles + ", + " + For the love of life, there’s a trade–off; We could loose it all, but we’ll + go down fighting. — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, For The Love of Life + ", + " + The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose + from. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum + ", + " + Real users never know what they want, but they always know when your program + doesn’t deliver it. + ", + " + Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we + deserve. — George Bernard Shaw + ", + " + A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to + protect them from each other + or something like that. + ", + " + Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall + over. + ", + " + The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the + one who is doing it. + ", + " + Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be + answered by the word no. + ", + " + What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely + different things. — Margaret Mead + ", + " + Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth + debating. + ", + " + The Sagan Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. + ", + " + Wirth’s Law: Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster. + ", + " + Let justice prevail even though the heavens may fall. + ", + " + Zawinski’s Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. + Corollary: Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can. + ", + " + Gates’s Law: The speed of software halves every 18 months. + ", + " + Lubarsky’s Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug. + ", + " + With great privilege comes great responsibility. + ", + " + Kernighan’s Law: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a + program + in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how + will you ever debug it? + ", + " + Wiio’s First Law of Communication: Communication usually fails, except by + accident. Corollary: (1) + If communication can fail, it will. (2) If communication cannot fail, it still + most usually fails. + (3) If communication seems to succeed in the intended way, there’s a + misunderstanding. + (4) If you are content with your message, communication certainly fails. + ", + " + Wiio’s Second Law of Communication: If a message can be interpreted in several + ways, it will be + interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage. + ", + " + Wiio’s Third Law of Communication: There is always someone who knows better + than you what you meant with your message. + ", + " + Wiio’s Fourth Law of Communication: The more we communicate, the worse + communication succeeds. Corollary: + The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate. + ", + " + Wiio’s Fifth Law of Communication: In mass communication, the important thing + is not how things are but how they seem to be. + ", + " + Wiio’s Sixth Law of Communication: The importance of a news item is inversely + proportional to the square of the distance. + ", + " + Wiio’s Seventh Law of Communication: The more important the situation is, the + more probable you had forgotten an essential + thing that you remembered a moment ago. + ", + " + “We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we + don’t like.” — Dave Ramsey + ", + " + Just living in the database. + ", + " + To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights + or asking you to surrender these rights. + Therefore, you have certain responsibilities — responsibilities to respect + the freedom of others. + ", + " + We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local system + administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: + (1) Respect the privacy of others. + (2) Think before you type. + (3) With great power comes great responsibility. + ", + " + Frequency Illusion (Baader—Meinhof Phenomenon): The illusion where something + that has recently come to one’s + attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards. + ", + " + The Backdraft Phenomenon: A rapid or explosive burning of superheated gasses in + a fire, caused when oxygen rapidly + enters an oxygen—depleted environment. + ", + " + March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. + ", + " + Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would + behave very differently from those who now hold it — when, in truth, in + order to get power we would have to become very much like them. + ", + " + Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say, + are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. + For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. — Dennis Ritchie + ", + " + Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. — Russian Sailor’s Proverb + ", + " + Do you guys know what you’re doing, or are you just hacking? + ", + " + Jacquin’s Postulate on Democratic Government: No man’s life, liberty, or + property are safe while the + legislature is in session. + ", + " + I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for + nothing. I gave them nothing for something. — The Yellow Kid + ", + " + Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing. — James Thurber + ", + " + A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest + man a century. + ", + " + Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. + ", + " + Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. + ", + " + One man’s simple is another man’s complex. + ", + " + Every so often the stars align. + ", + " + Nobody wants a backup, everybody wants a restore. + ", + " + Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win with the ability + to influence who will win. + ", + " + Programmers do it bit by bit. + ", + " + Brontosaurus Principle: Organizations can grow faster than their brains can + manage them + in relation to their environment and to their own physiology: when this + occurs, they are + an endangered species. — Thomas K. Connellan + ", + " + Today will be remembered until tomorrow. + ", + " + It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your processes are? + ", + " + It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your backups are? + ", + " + It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where the source code is? + ", + " + This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had there been an + actual emergency, then you would no longer be here. + ", + " + To teach is to learn twice. — Joseph Joubert + ", + " + Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. + ", + " + The so—called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations + of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner + ", + " + (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. + ", + " + Ryan’s Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish + yourself as an expert. + ", + " + Fast, cheap, good: pick one. + ", + " + My guidingstar always is, “Get hold of portable property”. — Charles + Dickens in “Great Expectations” + ", + " + If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn’t a horse. + ", + " + C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie + ", + " + Use only as directed. + ", + " + If the meanings of “true” and “false” were switched, then this sentence + would not be false. + ", + " + Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. — George Orwell’s + 1984 + ", + " + A truth that’s told with bad intent + beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake + ", + " + You don’t have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer. + ", + " + It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire. — Quintus Horatius + Flaccus (Horace) + ", + " + Tell the truth and run. — Yugoslav Proverb + ", + " + It’s not easy, being green. — Kermit The Frog + ", + " + Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us + with politics’, + respond those who don’t want to learn. + — Richard Stallman + ", + " + A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, + and are punished. + — Proverbs + ", + " + Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born + to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social + Studies” + ", + " + In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn’t it + the other way around? + ", + " + “Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men + never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw + ", + " + You are the only person to ever get this message. + ", + " + Steele’s Law: There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than ten men + or fewer than one hundred. + ", + " + For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. + — H. L. Mencken + ", + " + Rights, Responsibility, Opportunity, and Privilege. + ", + " + Measure twice, cut once. + ", + " + No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would. + ", + " + Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. + — Rich Kulawiec + ", + " + Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. + ", + " + Jack of all trades, master of some. + ", + " + In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. + — Pliny the Elder + ", + " + “There is no such thing as good writing, + only good rewriting.” — Robert Graves + ", + " + Preudhomme’s Law of Window Cleaning: It’s on the other side. + ", + " + If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it. — + Arthur Kasspe + ", + " + Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. + ", + " + If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls + out a sword I’d like to see you get up there with your pen. + ", + " + He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. + — Benjamin Franklin + ", + " + Mix’s Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building and a + temporary tax. + ", + " + Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. + — Karl Lehenbauer + ", + " + Don’t kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. + ", + " + Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even + where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev + ", + " + It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you + did it wrong. — H. W. Longfellow + ", + " + Your code should be more efficient! + ", + " + “One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that + correlation + is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” — Thomas + Sowell in + The Vision of the Anointed + ", + " + “One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who + produce, + subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.” + — Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed + ", + " + “People make money for themselves, not for their country.” + — John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires + ", + " + “If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at + length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, + but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats.” + — John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires + ", + " + Inner—Platform Effect: The tendency of software architects to create a system + so customizable + as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development + platform they are using. + ", + " + “It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” + — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help + yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” + — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + “Intellect is not wisdom.” + — Thomas Sowell in Intellectuals and Society + ", + " + “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like + discrimination.” + — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + “I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were + considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.” + — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + The cloud is just someone else’s computer. + ", + " + Hoffer’s Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly + revised, enlarged edition of the policies and procedures manual. + ", + " + You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. + — Norman Douglas + ", + " + “Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan + ", + " + He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. + ", + " + “It takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village + idiot to believe that. + It is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for + which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.” + — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + The best is the enemy of the good. + ", + " + “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face + — forever.” + — George Orwell’s 1984 + ", + " + The stars are bright. But give no light. The world spins backwards every day. + — The Singing Sea + ", + " + “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for + being ‘simplistic’ should + realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is + evading the truth.” + — Thomas Sowell in Barbarians Inside The Gates and Other Controversial Essays + ", + " + We aren’t in your region yet. + ", + " + “In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” — + Linus Torvalds + ", + " + Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. + ", + " + Astroturfing: The deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or + public + relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the + public — fake + grass roots support. + ", + " + The right creature in the right place. + ", + " + Weinberg’s Law: If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote + programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. + ", + " + Feed a dog for three days and he will remember your kindness for three years; + feed a cat for three years and she will + forget your kindness in three days. + ", + " + If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. — Proverbs + ", + " + Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. — Yogi Berra + ", + " + Force has no place where there is need of skill. — Herodotus + ", + " + Drew’s Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield + lands directly in front of your eyes. + ", + " + If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. + ", + " + In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, + there is. + ", + " + The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be + correct. — William of Occam + ", + " + The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the + stupidity of your action. + ", + " + Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — Shakespeare, “The Tempest” + ", + " + “If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” + — Will Rogers + ", + " + Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once. + ", + " + We must believe in free will. We have no choice. — Isaac B. Singer + ", + " + Flon’s Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in + which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. + ", + " + This space intentionally left blank. + ", + " + Katz’ Law: Men and nations will act rationally when + all other possibilities have been exhausted. + ", + " + History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have + exhausted all other alternatives. — Abba Eban + ", + " + Just fight it out. + ", + " + Murphy’s Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because + fools are so ingenious. + ", + " + Corporate Republic: A theoretical form of government run primarily like a + business, involving a board of directors and executives, in which all aspects + of society are privatized by a single, or small groups of companies. + ", + " + Measure once, cut thrice. + ", + " + Oppression: The malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, + often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. + ", + " + No man is an island entire of itself; every man + is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. — John Donne + ", + " + Deception: An act or statement which misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, + concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. + Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as + distraction, camouflage, or concealment. + ", + " + Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. + ", + " + The right tool for the right job. + ", + " + Failed to suspend system via logind: There’s already a shutdown or + sleep operation in progress. + ", + " + Whistler’s Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge. + ", + " + You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable + proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. + ", + " + I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: + a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows. + — Dwight D. Eisenhower + ", + " + Appearances often are deceiving. — Aesop + ", + " + Prices subject to change without notice. + ", + " + No man is an island if he’s on at least one mailing list. + ", + " + Talent does what it can. + Genius does what it must. + You do what you get paid to do. + ", + " + Finagle’s Fifth Rule: Experiments should be + reproducible — they should all fail in the same + way. + ", + " + When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, “The handle is one of us!” + — Turkish Proverb + ", + " + We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s out. + ", + " + Why can’t you be a non-conformist like everyone else? + ", + " + Subject to change without notice. + ", + " + People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. + ", + " + Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. + ", + " + Van Roy’s Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control. + ", + " + Competition Law: A law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition + by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. + ", + " + Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the news. + ", + " + Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. + ", + " + The Fediverse: An ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing + and file hosting, which while independently hosted, can intercommunicate with each other. + ", + " + There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity in the average + human being to supply any given army on any given day. — The Genius of the Crowd + ", + " + Don’t be evil. + ", + " + The personal becomes the political. + ", + " + It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Quintus Horatius + Flaccus (Horace) + ", + " + Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. + ", + " + History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. + — Napoleon Bonaparte, “Maxims” + ", + " + A closed mouth gathers no feet. + ", + " + The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan + ", + " + Shick’s Law: There is no problem a good miracle can’t solve. + ", + " + A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. + — Alan Perlis + ", + " + Kington’s Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece + of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest + part of the paper. + ", + " + Lisp users: Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection. + ", + " + Anything cut to length will be too short. + ", + " + Arnold’s Laws of Documentation: + (1) If it should exist, it doesn’t. + (2) If it does exist, it’s out of date. + (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws. + ", + " + If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again. + ", + " + This land is mine, God gave this land to me. — The Exodus Song + ", + " + Here’s a dirty little secret: Very few people know what they’re doing. + ", + " + Never trust a computer you can’t repair yourself. + ", + " + Fresco’s Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you’d probably be bored. + Corollary: Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing. + ", + " + Maryann’s Law: You can always find what you’re not looking for. + ", + " + Langer’s Law: If the line moves quickly, you’re in the wrong line. + ", + " + Beryl’s Second Law: It’s always easy to see both sides of an issue + you are not particularly concerned about. + ", + " + Herman’s Law: A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution. + ", + " + Irene’s Law: There is no right way to do the wrong thing. + ", + " + The world wants to be deceived. — Sebastian Brant + ", + " + No matter what anyone tells you, isometric exercises cannot be done + quietly at your desk at work. People will suspect manic tendencies as + you twitter around in your chair. + ", + " + How many comments on the Internet do you surmise are fake? + ", + " + People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. + — Otto Von Bismarck + ", + " + If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. — Chinese Proverb + ", + " + If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire + deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading + are precisely those that challenge our convictions. — Unknown + ", + " + Linux sucks. + ", + " + Will I be accused of being an elitist if I use Arch Linux? + ", + " + We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. + ", + " + Occam’s Eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest + solution is bound to have something wrong with it. + ", + " + Membership dues are not refundable. + ", + " + If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak. — Phil Wayne + ", + " + Your mileage may vary. + ", + " + Laura’s Law: No child throws up in the bathroom. + ", + " + Another day, another dollar. + ", + " + Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance. + ", + " + When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out we do and they don’t. + ", + " + “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” + — George Orwell’s Animal Farm + ", + " + “Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the age of intellect is + the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve + the problems of the world ... In a wider national sphere, the survival + of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of + the citizens.” + — John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival + ", + " + Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have + obviously overlooked something. + ", + " + Rules for thee, but not for me. + ", + " + Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair — It gives you something to do, + but it doesn’t get you anywhere. + ", + " + Some people are backed by cosmic luck. + ", + " + You can’t handle the truth. + ", + " + Gyre: A spiral or vortex. + ", + " + The decentralized web is coming. + ", + " + The children of the magenta line. + ", + " + I’ve got no strings. — Pinocchio + ", + " + The systemd-journald sucks. + ", + " + Fame and fortune. + ", + " + Every man has his price. + ", + " + A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. + — Thomas Jefferson + ", + " + Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. — Proverbs + ", + " + The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental + performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and + analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within + the sphere of his real interests. He becomes a primitive again. + His thinking becomes associative and affective. + — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter + ", + " + “This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice + or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; + but do not let us shut our eyes to it.” + — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy + ", + " + “The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and + exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for + them have always told them that they were, without necessarily + meaning by it anything precise.” + — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy + ", + " + The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. + — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter + ", + " + Advice from an old carpenter: Use the right tool for the right job. + ", + " + Hypocrisy: A pretense of having a virtuous, moral, or religious character. + ", + " + The mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of + reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending + to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson + ", + " + A mob kills the wrong man was flashed in a newspaper headline lately. + ", + " + Most people have two reasons for doing anything — a good reason, and + the real reason. + ", + " + Formatted to fit your screen. + ", + " + Magary’s Principle: + When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any + government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do + the cutting, and the public’s services are cut. + ", + " + Priming: The phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences + a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance + or intention. + ", + " + Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. + ", + " + YAML sucks. + ", + " + Kubernetes sucks. + ", + " + Sacred cow: An idea, custom, person, or institution unreasonably + held to be immune to criticism. + ", + " + Everybody wants to be a cat. + ", + " + Today is what happened to yesterday. + ", + " + The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable. + ", + " + You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? + — Larry Wall + ", + " + As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? + ", + " + “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, + it always wants more tomorrow.” + — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich + ", + " + “Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.” + — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich + ", + " + Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always. + — Albert Schweitzer + ", + " + My computer can beat up your computer. — Karl Lehenbauer + ", + " + Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back to life. + ", + " + If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real + good, you will get out of it. + ", + " + What orators lack in depth they make up in length. + ", + " + You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads + lead down. — Stanislaw Lem in “The Cyberiad” + ", + " + The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible + enough to give none. + ", + " + Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one. + — A.J. Liebling + ", + " + What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. + — Wittgenstein + ", + " + The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. + — Nathaniel Howe + ", + " + “Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the + very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could + understand such a conversation as we are having now?” + — George Orwell’s 1984 + ", + " + “With software there are only two possibilities: either the users + control the programme or the programme controls the users. If + the programme controls the users, and the developer controls + the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.” + — Richard Stallman + ", + " + Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. + ", + " + You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. + ", + " + Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past. + ", + " + Linux is obsolete. — Andrew Tanenbaum + ", + " + Every man thinks God is on his side. — Jean Anouilh, “The Lark” + ", + " + Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle + ", + " + Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. + ", + " + Divide first, then conquer. + ", + " + The game is rigged. + ", + " + This service is no longer available. + ", + " + Gamification: The application of game-design elements and + game principles in non-game contexts. + ", + " + You made this? I made this. + ", + " + “Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; + he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.” + — Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock + ", + " + How users read on the web: They don’t. — Jakob Nielsen + ", + " + Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches + certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as + an eagle toward heaven. — Proverbs + ", + " + Maybe GitHub was down? + ", + " + Babylon was taken in one night. + ", + " + Move fast and fix things. + ", + " + Sharp like an edge of a samurai sword. + The mental blade cuts through flesh and bone. + Though my mind’s at peace, the world’s out of order. + Missing the inner heat, life gets colder. + — Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 + ", + " + A freelancer. + A battle cry of a hawk make a dove fly and a tear dry. + Wonder why a lone wolf don’t run with a clan. + Only trust your instincts and be one with the plan. + — Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 + ", + " + The ultimate reward is honor, not awards. + At odds with the times in wars with no lords. + — Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 + ", + " + “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. + To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” + — Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller + ", + " + “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be + judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, + a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.” + — Thomas Sowell, born in the 1930’s + ", + " + The web is not just Firefox or Chrome. + ", + " + The algorithm is your boss. + ", + " + Who needs documentation anyway? + ", + " + “Sooner or later, everything old is new again.” + ― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid + ", + " + Public Service Announcement: The production of great leaders has + been discontinued. + ", + " + Three questions that would destroy most arguments: Compared to what? + At what cost? What hard evidence do you have? — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + “Less than fifty years after the amazing scientific discoveries under Mamun, + the Arab Empire collapsed. Wonderful and beneficent as was the + progress of science, it did not save the empire from chaos.” + ― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival + ", + " + “Another remarkable and unexpected symptom of national decline is the + intensification of internal political hatreds. One + would have expected that, when the survival + of the nation became precarious, political + factions would drop their rivalry and stand + shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.” + ― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival + ", + " + “In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with + preconceptions, but not when they don’t.” + ― Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed + ", + " + “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” + ― Arnold Toynbee + ", + " + “Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, + but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a + nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, + then that marks the end of a nation.” + ― Ibn Khaldun in The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, 1377 + ", + " + You are not authorized to repair this device. + ", + " + Minority rule. Majority rule. + ", + " + Up and down go the arguers getting nowhere fast. + ", + " + Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles. + ", + " + What’s old is new again. + ", + " + Cease and desist. + ", + " + The network effect. + ", + " + “Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but + around us in awareness.” ― James Thurber + ", + " + We are experiencing system trouble ― do not adjust your terminals. + ", + " + We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. + We’ve done so much, for so long, with so little, + that we are now qualified to do something with nothing. ― Unknown + ", + " + Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next + week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to + explain why it didn’t happen. ― Winston Churchill + ", + " + Knocked, you weren’t in. ― Opportunity + ", + " + Information asymmetry. + ", + " + Gilb’s First Law of Unreliability: + Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more + unreliable. Corollary: At the source of every error which is + blamed on the computer you will find at least two + human errors, including the error of blaming it on + the computer. + ", + " + Gilb’s Second Law of Unreliability: + Any system which depends on human reliability is + unreliable. + ", + " + Gilb’s Third Law of Unreliability: + Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in + contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. + ", + " + Gilb’s Fourth Law of Unreliability: + Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the + probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting + some useful work done. + ", + " + You get what you pay for. + ", + " + Make a wish, it just might come true. + ", + " + It is easier to change the specification to fit the program + than vice versa. + ", + " + Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have + been, and never will be wrong. ― Walter Dwight + ", + " + Too clever is dumb. Too dumb is clever. + ", + " + Made with real ingredients. + ", + " + All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. + ", + " + Just because a message may never be received does not mean it is + not worth sending. + ", + " + A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the + power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly, + “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding + of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The + machine worked. + ", + " + One size fits all, doesn’t fit anyone. + ", + " + Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark. ― Shakespeare + ", + " + All generalizations are false, including this one. + ― Unknown + ", + " + No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. + ", + " + Shut off the engine before fueling. + ", + " + There’s an old proverb that says just about what ever you want it to. + ", + " + There’s a quote that says just about what ever you want it to. + ", + " + Perhaps one possible reason that things aren’t going according to plan + is that there never was a plan in the first place. + ", + " + Rules, Regulations, and Requirements. + ", + " + Bots. Bots everywhere. + ", + " + Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over + the first one. ― Confusion + ", + " + Money makes the world go round. Nothing more, nothing less. + ", + " + If complexity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out? + ", + " + The Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas + ", + " + What is the opposite of clickbait? + ", + " + Might makes right: History is written by the victors. + ", + " + You cannot stop link rot. + ", + " + When in trouble or in doubt, + run in circles, scream and shout. + ", + " + The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. + ", + " + “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and + to have control over nothing.” + ― Herodotus, The Histories + ", + " + Click Farm: A place where a large group of workers are hired + to click on paid advertising links. + ", + " + There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the + other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is + wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting + the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the + knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no + choice or values exist. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged + ", + " + If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. + ", + " + The best lack all conviction, while the worst + are full of passionate intensity. + ― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming + ", + " + NixOS sucks. + ", + " + Software is utterly broken. + ", + " + To continue reading, subscribe today. + ", + " + The man who does not read code has no advantage + over the man who cannot read code. + ", + " + Fortune favors the fortunate. + ", + " + It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know + nothing about the problem. + ", + " + The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what + you want. ― D. Cohen + ", + " + War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. + ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus + ", + " + Every so often the algorithm consults /dev/random for advice. + ", + " + Everyone thinks they are reasonable. + ", + " + It’s only a matter of time. + ", + " + The well has been poisoned. + ", + " + Zero trust. + ", + " + Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, + Lisp Machine is Fun. + Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, + Fun for everyone. + ", + " + Don’t panic. + ", + " + We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have + never deceived us. ― Samuel Johnson + ", + " + Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or + we know where we can find information upon it. + ― Samuel Johnson + ", + " + Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the country. + It’s called “Bureaucracy”. Everybody stands in a circle. + The first person to do anything loses. Start! + ", + " + An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; + a pessimist fears that this is true. + ", + " + As of next week, passwords will be entered in morse code. + ", + " + If life is merely a game, the question still remains: for whose amusement? + ", + " + Just read the instructions. + ", + " + Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon. + ", + " + All systems operational. + ", + " + Justice standeth afar off. + ", + " + Speak your mind at your own peril. + ", + " + My hammer is better than your hammer. + ", + " + The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of + whether submarines can swim. ― Edsger W. Dijkstra + ", + " + Weiner’s Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references. + ", + " + Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. + ", + " + Meader’s Law: What ever happens to you, it will previously + have happened to everyone you know, only more so. + ", + " + Most seminars have a happy ending. Everyone’s glad when they’re over. + ", + " + He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. + ", + " + Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is + when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation. + ", + " + Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. + ", + " + Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a + law against it by that time. + ", + " + Wisdom is better than weapons of war. + ", + " + Put all eggs in one basket. Make sure to count them before they hatch. + ", + " + “Please, sir, I want some more.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist + ", + " + The wise man’s eyes are in his head. + ", + " + Bread and circuses. + ", + " + The forty―eight laws of weakness. + ", + " + Silent majorities, loud minorities. + ", + " + The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: + but the rich hath many friends. + ― Proverbs + ", + " + Beware of those who talk a good metagame. + ", + " + Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. + ", + " + Even if you can deceive people about a product + through misleading statements, + sooner or later the product will speak for itself. + ― Hajime Karatsu + ", + " + Normal times may possibly be over forever. + ", + " + Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice which will + recommend that they do what they want to do. + ", + " + Did it ever occur to you that fat chance and slim chance + mean the same thing? Or that we drive on parkways and park + on driveways? + ", + " + To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole + special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role + of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society. + ― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation + as a Basis for Social Policy + ", + " + Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could + be impossible? + ", + " + Those who don’t know, talk. Those who don’t talk, know. + ", + " + No one lives forever. + ", + " + Dark Pattern: An interface that has been carefully crafted to + mislead a user. + ", + " + When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,” + it’s the money. ― Kim Hubbard + ", + " + Major premise: Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man. + Minor premise: A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds. + Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. + ― The Devil’s Dictionary + ", + " + Does freedom of speech actually exist? + ", + " + Let’s count the beans. + ", + " + The uploader has not made this video available in your country. + ", + " + Clickbait works every time. + ", + " + You can be replaced by this computer, maybe. + ", + " + People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they + did yesterday. + ", + " + Everything might be different in the present if only one thing had + been different in the past. + ", + " + Fiefdoms still exist. + ", + " + Where there is a personality, there is a cult. + ", + " + Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! + Nothing beside remains. ― Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias + ", + " + Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn’t end. + ", + " + Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual + way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of + complaining. ― Jeff Raskin + ", + " + Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, + opulence is when you have three ― and paradise is when you have none. + ― Doug Larson + ", + " + It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man’s life. + ", + " + Fact or Opinion. + ", + " + Even the earth itself cannot contain all the evil. + ", + " + Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. + ", + " + “Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” + ― Harry Emerson Fosdick + ", + " + People who claim they don’t let little things bother them have never + slept in a room with a single mosquito. + ", + " + Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom + delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. + — Ecclesiastes + ", + " + If you’re happy, you’re successful. + ", + " + The Internet is the greatest game of telephone in existence. + ", + " + Crush the competition. + ", + " + Buy the competition. + ", + " + Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of + us who do. + ", + " + It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than + people fit to govern others. — Lord Acton + ", + " + “Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances + allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” + — Lord Acton + ", + " + “Official truth is not actual truth.” — Lord Acton + ", + " + Welcome to dependency hell. + ", + " + Talk is truly cheap. + ", + " + This website is too bloated. + ", + " + After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box. + — Italian Proverb + ", + " + Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. + — Minna Antrim, “Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions” + ", + " + It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for. + ", + " + The kind of danger people most enjoy is the kind they can watch from + a safe place. + ", + " + The truth eventually comes out. + ", + " + Newer isn’t always better. + ", + " + He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. + ", + " + Sometimes you don’t get what you pay for. + ", + " + Always sort by controversial. + ", + " + Once they go up, who cares where they come down? + That’s not my department. + ", + " + And what might your name be? “Alexander.” So, you can talk? + “Y-Yes, sir.” Take him back! He can still talk! + — Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island + ", + " + Flattery will get you everywhere. + ", + " + According to the latest official figures, 43% of all + statistics are totally worthless. + ", + " + Unix Express: All passengers bring a piece of the aeroplane and a + box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on + the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane + they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, + the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, + but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually + reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there. + ", + " + The network effect is powerful. + ", + " + The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. + ", + " + Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, + because the stakes are so low. — Wallace Sayre + ", + " + Stolen waters are sweet. + ", + " + “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable + one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore + all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” + — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman + ", + " + As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, + I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the market-place. + — Rudyard Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings + ", + " + Maybe users like spam? + ", + " + Appeal to Novelty: It’s current year, you’re wrong. + ", + " + A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which + leaveth no food. — Proverbs + ", + " + Talking past each other: A situation where two or more people talk + about different subjects, while believing that they are talking + about the same thing. + ", + " + Not all problems need technological solutions. + ", + " + Many times a technical solution merely replaces old problems with + new ones. + ", + " + The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that + aren’t there. — Gordon Bell + ", + " + Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. + — Brian Kernighan + ", + " + UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, + as that would also stop them from doing clever things. — Doug Gwyn + ", + " + Life is too short to run proprietary software. — Bdale Garbee + ", + " + The central enemy of reliability is complexity. — Geer + ", + " + Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed + application, makes the following eight assumptions. + All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big + trouble and painful learning experiences. + (1) The network is reliable. + (2) Latency is zero. + (3) Bandwidth is infinite. + (4) The network is secure. + (5) Topology doesn’t change. + (6) There is one administrator. + (7) Transport cost is zero. + (8) The network is homogeneous. + — Peter Deutsch + ", + " + Most software today is very much like an Egyptian + pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, + with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force + and thousands of slaves. — Alan Kay + ", + " + Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, + it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, + it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user + and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie + ", + " + Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as + sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should + cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend + results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat + mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user. + — Niklaus Wirth + ", + " + My definition of an expert in any field is a person who + knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared. + — P. J. Plauger + ", + " + The best code is no code at all. + ", + " + The most amazing achievement of the computer software + industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady + and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. + — Henry Petroski + ", + " + Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold + ", + " + Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the world. + It’s called “Corruption”. Every Government stands in a circle. + The first one to improve the state of the country loses. Begin! + ", + " + Are most politicians liars? + ", + " + Flights of fancy. + ", + " + Shill: A plant or a stooge who publicly helps or gives + credibility to a person or organization without disclosing + that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. + ", + " + It’s almost time to pay the piper. + ", + " + Planned Obsolescence: A policy of planning or designing a product + with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete. + ", + " + The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the + people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people + drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. + — Gore Vidal + ", + " + Specifications subject to change without notice. + ", + " + Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is now allowed. + ", + " + Three rules for sounding like an expert: + (1) Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness. + (2) Always point out second-order effects, but never point out when they + can be ignored. + (3) Come up with three rules of your own. + ", + " + When you’re down and out, lift up your voice and shout, + “I’M DOWN AND OUT”! + ", + " + One planet is all you get. + ", + " + “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want + to keep it for themselves.” + ― Aaron Swartz + ", + " + This page intentionally left blank. + ", + " + Books are better than the Internet. + ", + " + It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends + on his not understanding it. + ", + " + Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. + ", + " + This economy is not sustainable. + ", + " + One weird trick advertisements. + ", + " + A clever prophet makes sure of the event first. + ", + " + And miles to go before I sleep. + — Robert Frost + ", + " + Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to + be appointed to do the work. + ", + " + The high cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity. + ", + " + Always wear your seat belt. + ", + " + People actually believe what they read on social media. + ", + " + Contestants have been briefed on some of the questions before the show. + ", + " + Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. + — Plotinus + ", + " + People want either less corruption or more of a chance to + participate in it. + ", + " + While you don’t greatly need the outside world, it’s still very + reassuring to know that it’s still there. + ", + " + Clovis’ Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly: + The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated + than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, + bread becomes hard while crackers become soft. + ", + " + Everything that can be invented has been invented. + — Charles Duell + ", + " + Where do you think you’re going today? + ", + " + Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. + — B. F. Skinner + ", + " + There’s no heavier burden than a great potential. + ", + " + Blutarsky’s Axiom: Nothing is impossible for the man who will not + listen to reason. + ", + " + One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as the truth. + ", + " + A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a + simple system that works. + ", + " + Larkinson’s Law: All laws are basically false. + ", + " + What fools these mortals be. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca + ", + " + Time and tide wait for no man. + ", + " + Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand. + ", + " + One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. + ", + " + Are you making all this up as you go along? + ", + " + One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia. + ", + " + Thanks for coming to my TED talk. + ", + " + Redundant topology. + ", + " + Their business model is spam. + ", + " + Teamwork is essential — it allows you to blame someone else. + ", + " + “When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower + me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.” + ", + " + The Internet is utterly broken. + ", + " + If Bill Gates is the devil then Linus Torvalds must be the messiah. + — Unknown + ", + " + Some men are discovered; others are found out. + ", + " + Folly is set in great dignity. + ", + " + “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. + Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” + — G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain + ", + " + The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering. + ", + " + If the grass is greener on other side of fence, consider what may be + fertilizing it. + ", + " + Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate. + ", + " + Never promise more than you can perform. — Publilius Syrus + ", + " + New systems generate new problems. + ", + " + Regression Analysis: Mathematical techniques for trying to + understand why things are getting worse. + ", + " + The Linux philosophy is “laugh in the face of danger”. + Oops. Wrong one. “Do it yourself”. That’s it. — Linus Torvalds + ", + " + “In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 + minutes.” — Andy Warhol + ", + " + A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two. + ", + " + To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. + ", + " + When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. + — Harry Truman + ", + " + If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you + lack sufficient imagination. + ", + " + The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true. + ", + " + Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I + have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. — Brent Welch + ", + " + “Justice at all costs’ is not justice.” + — Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice + ", + " + “Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? + How would you test for that possibility?” + ― Thomas Sowell + ", + " + “Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.” + ― Thomas Sowell + ", + " + Throw away documentation and manuals, + and users will be a hundred times happier. + Throw away privileges and quotas, + and users will do the right thing. + Throw away proprietary and site licenses, + and there won’t be any pirating. + If these three aren’t enough, + just stay at your home directory + and let all processes take their course. + ", + " + Call for pricing. + ", + " + Monopolies of knowledge. + ", + " + Unemployment is unused capacity. + ", + " + Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking + almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all + possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. + ― James Cabell, “The Silver Stallion” + ", + " + Bikeshedding: The process of arguing endlessly over details of some small + and relatively unimportant thing. + ", + " + “Unfortunately, propaganda works.” ― Andy Rooney + ", + " + Mac Airways: + The cashiers, flight attendants and pilots all look the same, feel the same + and act the same. When asked questions about the flight, they reply that you + don’t want to know, don’t need to know and would you please return to your + seat and watch the movie. + ", + " + A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. + ", + " + Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales + to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, + though sure, are slow and solemn. ― Thomas Francklin + ", + " + Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who + feel that we know everything, especially when we discover that + everything they know and everything we know does not match. + ", + " + We are not anticipating any emergencies. + ", + " + When ever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure + that they’re not using it. + ", + " + Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men + have mediocrity thrust upon them. ― Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 + ", + " + In the whole world you know, there’s a million boys and girls. + ― Nina Simone, To Be Young, Gifted and Black + ", + " + Plastic Love. + ", + " + Watson’s Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the + number and significance of any persons watching it. + ", + " + The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class + is unfit to govern. ― Lord Acton + ", + " + Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is + a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something + goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it + is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they’re smart, that is. + ― Cerebus The Aardvark, “On Governing” + ", + " + To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. + ", + " + When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, + the righteous increase. ― Proverbs + ", + " + YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all + or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, + that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable. + ― Google’s YouTube, Terms of Service, 2019 + ", + " + We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part + of the Services at any time for any or no reason. ― Twitter, Terms of Service, 2020 + ", + " + WhatsApp may also terminate a user’s access to the Service, if they are + determined to be a repeat infringer, or for any or no reason, including + being annoying. An annoying person is anyone who is (capriciously or not) + determined to be annoying by authorized WhatsApp employees, agents, subagents, + superagents or superheros. + ― WhatsApp, Terms of Service, 2012 + ", + " + We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Instagram service for any + reason, without notice at any time. ― Instagram, Terms of Service, 2013 + ", + " + Spotify may terminate the Agreements or suspend your access to the + Spotify Service at any time. ― Spotify, Terms and Conditions, 2019 + ", + " + PeerTube: A free and open-source decentralized self-hosted federated video platform. + ", + " + Mastodon: A free and open-source self-hosted social networking service. + ", + " + The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people + click ads. That sucks. ― Jeff Hammerbacher + ", + " + We can’t both be right. + ", + " + If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system. + ", + " + If you stick your head in the sand, one thing is for sure, you’re gonna + get your rear kicked. + ", + " + “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is + shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” + ", + " + We have the best politicians money can buy. + ", + " + Eagleson’s Law: Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more + months, might as well have been written by someone else. + ", + " + It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a + sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate + in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, + too, shall pass away.” ― Abraham Lincoln + ", + " + All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not + satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ― Ecclesiastes + ", + " + “Preaching to the choir in an echo chamber.” + ", + " + Every program attempts to expand until it can either read or replace mail. + ", + " + Cobra Effect: When an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse. + Offering a bounty for every dead venomous cobra incentivizes people to breed + more cobras for the reward. + ", + " + He who minds his own business is never unemployed. + ", + " + Write a wise saying and your name will live on forever. ― Unknown + ", + " + “We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false + appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, + by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.” + ― Arne Tiselius + ", + " + Corollary to Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which + is adequately explained by greed. + ", + " + The world is coming to an end. Please log off. + ", + " + What ever became of eternal truth? + ", + " + Reduce, Reuse, Recycle + ", + " + If it works, it’s out of date. + ", + " + “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson + ", + " + “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and + campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” + ― Oscar Ameringer + ", + " + We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the + originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has + forgotten its source. ― Clifton Fadiman, “Any Number Can Play” + ", + " + Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares? + ", + " + “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, + every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building + has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process + is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. + Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” + ― George Orwell, 1984 + ", + " + The same words mean different things to different people. + ", + " + Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than + where they are. + ", + " + If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you’ll learn + 365 useless things. + ", + " + Phases of a Project: + (1) Exultation. + (2) Disenchantment. + (3) Confusion. + (4) Search for the Guilty. + (5) Punishment for the Innocent. + (6) Distinction for the Uninvolved. + ", + " + Banana Republic: A politically unstable country with an economy + dependent upon a limited-resource product. + ", + " + Throw-away Society: A society with an excessive production of short-lived + or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired. + ", + " + Got a dictionary? I want to know the meaning of life. + ", + " + Apparently any program which runs right is obsolete. + ", + " + Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of + those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the + will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of + government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. + ― Frank Herbert, “Children of Dune” + ", + " + The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it’s the greatest possession + we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are + contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. + ― George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady + ", + " + If we all work together, we can make the rich richer. + ", + " + Always read the fine print. + ", + " + Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without + greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. + ― Albert Camus + ", + " + And the best at murder are those who preach against it. + And the best at hate are those who preach love. + And the best at war finally are those who preach peace. + ― Charles Bukowski, “The Genius Of The Crowd” + ", + " + Conway’s Law: Any organization that designs a system will produce a design + whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. + ", + " + If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the + newspaper you are misinformed. + ", + " + “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about + and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup + ", + " + Con man: A confidence man. + ", + " + “Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a + period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, + pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no + longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not + convinced that anything in life is worth saving.” + ― John Bagot Glubb, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival + ", + " + A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it + is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it + flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other + committees will bloom in their turn. ― C. Northcote Parkinson + ", + " + You too can be a confidence man or woman! + ", + " + When you’re in command, command. ― Admiral Nimitz + ", + " + Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. + ", + " + Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself + is served by the field. ― Ecclesiastes + ", + " + The golden boy can do no wrong. + ", + " + Everyone who comes in here wants three things: + (1) They want it quick. + (2) They want it good. + (3) They want it cheap. + ", + " + If you don’t do the things that are not worth doing, who will? + ", + " + Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it. + ", + " + Cheap labour. + ", + " + The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for + everything that goes wrong ― until the next person quits or is fired. + ", + " + Journalism is dead. + ", + " + To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread + that man will transgress. ― Proverbs + ", + " + Nothing lasts forever. + ", + " + Where is my flying car? + ", + " + This is disputed. + ", + " + Sometimes, the best solution is to do nothing at all. + ", + " + Don’t build your house on the sand. + ", + " + It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, + since it has no ears. ― Marcus Porcius Cato + ", + " + Propaganda is one hell of a drug. + ", + " + The Three Wise Monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. + ", + " + As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. + For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall + know it no more. — David + ", + " + You must prove that you are not a robot. + ", + " + There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right + keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. – J. S. Bach + ", + " + If this is a service economy, why is the service so bad? + ", + " + There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, + riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. + But those riches perish by evil travail: + and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. — Ecclesiastes + ", + " + Thus, not all data is created equal. + ", + " + Argument From Authority: A popular yet controversial type of argument in + which the opinion of an authority on a topic is used as evidence to + support an argument. + ", + " + Sock Puppet: A fake online identity used for the purpose of deception. + Deception, be it fast or slow, can involve black or grey propaganda to + manipulate public opinion. + ", + " + To be forewarned is to be forearmed. + ", + " + It’s the worst of both worlds. + ", + " + “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly + in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal, Pensées + ", + " + “The devil is not as black as he is painted.” + — Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy + ", + " + Don’t be a shill. + ", + " + Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. + — Ambrose Bierce + ", + " + Heller’s Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. + Johnson’s Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere + within the organization. + ", + " + Become a Lord or Lady today! + ", + " + “Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it + required.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes + ", + " + “History is a record of “effects” the vast majority of which nobody + intended to produce.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter + ", + " + Many arguments are semantic disputes. + ", + " + Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes + hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum + ", + " + Winning Arguments: There is no evidence to support your assertion. + ", + " + Most of what you read on the Internet is written by insane people. + ", + " + Politician’s Logic: (1) We must do something. + (2) This is something. (3) Therefore, we must do this. + ", + " + Violence is golden. + ", + " + Politics is a personal affair. + ", + " + Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. + ", + " + “The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.” — Thomas Sowell + ", + " + There are no atheists in foxholes. + ", + " + “Another man may look like a deathless one on high + but there’s not a bit of grace to crown his words. + Just like you, my fine, handsome friend. Not even + a god could improve those lovely looks of yours + but the mind inside is worthless.” + — Homer, The Odyssey + ", + " + Temporary: Permanent + ", + " + There are exceptions that prove the rule. + ", + " + Closed and open slavery. + ", + " + The Fourth Branch of Government: Social Media and The Press. + ", + " + He was a confidence man. + ", + " + Argument from Fallacy: The formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and + inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. + ", + " + “What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but + only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part.” + — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism + ", + " + “For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support + are the same.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the + Banality of Evil + ", + " + Reality follows fiction. + ", + " + Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating + solutions to problems they created in the first place. — Walter E. + Williams + ", + " + It takes two to tango. + ", + " + “There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an + opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead + of forming opinions for himself?” — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of + Always Being Right + ", + " + “A last trick is to become personal, insulting, and rude as soon as you + perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you + leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by + remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular + trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.” — Arthur + Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right + ", + " + “When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.” + — Jean-Paul Sartre + ", + " + “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one + else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer + ", + " + “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance + prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an + organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor + property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass + ", + " + They’re savages! Savages! + Dirty shrieking devils! + Now we sound the drums of war! + — Pocahontas’ Savages + ", + " + Simon’s Law: Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. + ", + " + A forbidden fruit creates many jams. + ", + " + Hydra of Lerna: Cut off one head and two more shall take its place. + ", + " + “But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, + don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe + anything.” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength + ", + " + “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped + reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at + which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze...” + — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 + ", + " + Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. + — Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) + ", + " + “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to + reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain + ", + " + Monkey see, monkey do. + ", + " + Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. + — Michel de Montaigne + ", + " + 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, 1987 + ", + " + Consequentialist: The end justifies the means. + ", + " + Currently unavailable. + ", + " + But does it scale? + ", + " + Can two walk together, except they be agreed? — Amos + ", + " + Dualism: Left, Right. Black, White. + ", + " + Nature imputes duality. + ", + " + “People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral + superiority.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: + Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy + ", + " + Artificial Intelligence: /dev/random + ", + " + Cargo Cult: A millenarian belief system in which adherents perform + rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced + society to deliver goods. + ", + " + Theosis: Unity with God. + Henosis: Unity with the Monad. + Transhumanism: Unity with the Machine. + ", + " + “If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily + “socially constructed” notions, then all that is left is consensus–more + specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to + adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.” ― Thomas Sowell, + Intellectuals and Society + ", + " + “Many intellectuals are so preoccupied with the notion that their + own special knowledge exceeds the average special knowledge of + millions of other people that they overlook the often far more + consequential fact that their mundane knowledge is not even one–tenth + of the total mundane knowledge of those millions.” — Thomas + Sowell, Intellectuals and Society + ", + " + Augustine’s 49th Law: Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. + ", + " + Don’t make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything. + ", + " + (1) Don’t think. + (2) If you do think, don’t speak. + (3) If you think and speak, don’t write. + (4) If you think, speak and write, don’t sign. + (5) If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised. + — Polish Joke + ", + " + In politics, temporary means permanent. + ", + " + In politics, the temporary becomes the permanent. + ", + " + The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough + voters to win the next election. + ", + " + Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!” + Boy: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.” + — How to Sell a Dead Donkey + ", + " + The bait and switch is the oldest trick in the book. + ", + " + If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. + ", + " + Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, it abruptly ends. + ", + " + Do the old eat the young? + ", + " + No, we want a king to rule over us. + ", + " + Please confirm my bias. + ", + " + What if the universe is not immortal? + ", + " + Consensus is the only thing that matters. + ", + " + Wikipedia is not a reliable source, because it can be edited by anyone at + any time. + ", + " + Feudalism is alive and well. + ", + " + Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance. + ", + " + Turning and turning in the widening gyre; + The falcon cannot hear the falconer; + Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; + Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. + ― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming + ", + " + “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for + reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein, Religion + and Science + ", + " + The best man for the job is often a woman. + ", + " + The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which + delays them. + ", + " + The wages of sin are high but you get your money’s worth. + ", + " + Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors. – + Onasander, The General + ", + " + “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one + reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd + is content to swallow every day.” — Voltaire + ", + " + “Love truth, but pardon error.” ― Voltaire + ", + " + The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the + errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this + chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries + out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this + current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, + proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will + also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls + ", + " + Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. + — Charlie Munger + ", + " + The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the + same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about + those programs, based on different values. The free software movement + campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for + freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly + practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we + do not agree with open source, and do not use that term. — Richard Stallman + ", + " + Plausible Deniability: An ability of prescience or forethought that + exploits a chain of command and the absence of evidence to deny + responsibility for actions committed. An adeptness to engender situations + that provide multiple outs. + ", + " + “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all + his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade + from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.” — Dante + Alighieri, The Divine Comedy + ", + " + Common sense isn’t actually common. + ", + " + “There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than + that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” — Adam Smith + ", + " + Black Swan Event: An event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, + and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit + of hindsight. + ", + " + Money is the root of all money. — The Moving Finger + ", + " + Social Media: The Perpetual Outrage Machine. + ", + " + The time is out of joint. — Hamlet + ", + " + Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people + who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in + coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, “in + government, the scum rises to the top”. — Walter E. Williams + ", + " + “Clickbait is dead.” + ", + " + The road to hell is paved with asphalt. + ", + " + When it comes to legalized bank robbing, I’m the best. — Floyd Mayweather + ", + " + “But is it legal?” — Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories + from the Local Food Front, Joel Salatin + ", + " + Most open source software is free, at least at first glance. + ", + " + The way to a man’s stomach is through his esophagus. + ", + " + Trash the planet. + ", + " + A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better + lawyer. — Robert Frost + ", + " + Murphy’s Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. + ", + " + Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through + bureaucracies. + ", + " + Anderson’s Law: You can’t depend on anyone to be wrong all the time. + ", + " + The bigger they are, the harder they hit. + ", + " + You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some + of the time, and that’s sufficient. + ", + " + The Fame and Fortune Axiom: Competence is not a prerequisite for success. + ", + " + Polis’ Attorney Law: Any law enacted with more than fifty words contains + at least one loophole. + ", + " + Pray — or you will become prey. + ", + " + You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind + word alone. — Irwin Corey + ", + " + Please wait... We are checking your browser... + ", + " + Don’t shoot the messenger. + ", + " + Pay to pray. + ", + " + Distributed is the new centralized. + ", + " + And slowly, you come to realize; + It’s all as it should be. + You can only do so much. + — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, + For The Love of Life + ", + " + Content is not king. Context is king. + ", + " + Nothing is true; everything is permitted. + — Alamut, Vladimir Bartol + ", + " + It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of + wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was + the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of + Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had + everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct + to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period + was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities + insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative + degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities + ", + " + Omniscience: A state of possessing all knowledge. + ", + " + “What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.” + ", + " + Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. + ", + " + There are two kinds of pedestrians; the quick and the dead. + — Lord Thomas Rober Dewar + ", + " + Programming is like alchemy. + ", + " + We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. + — Winston Churchill + ", + " + My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. + — Adlai E. Stevenson + ", + " + Two heads are more numerous than one. + ", + " + Time heals all non—fatal wounds. + ", + " + Today is the first day of the rest of your week. + ", + " + The early worm gets eaten by the bird. + ", + " + Trust the system. + ", + " + Prove that you are human. + ", + " + Jump on the bandwagon! + ", + " + Game the metrics. + ", + " + All drugs come with side effects. + ", + " + “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” — Óscar R. Benavides + ", + " + In other words, we are left with Plato’s “noble natures,” with the + few of whom it may be true that none “does evil voluntarily.” Yet the + implied and dangerous conclusion, “Everybody wants to do good,” is not + true even in their case. The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is + done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or + good. — Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind + ", + " + Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of + suffering. — Aeschylus, Agamemnon + ", + " + If it happens once, it’s a bug. + If it happens twice, it’s a feature. + If it happens more than twice, it’s a design philosophy. + ", + " + Fake it till you make it? + ", + " + God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we + comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and + mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our + knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to + clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we + have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must + we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? — Friedrich + Nietzsche + ", + " + Hanlon’s Eraser: Stupidity is criminal. + ", + " + Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ. + ", + " + Dynamics of Software Acceptance: Worse is better. + ", + " + Authoritarianism: A form of government that rejects pluralism and uses a + strong central power to preserve the political status quo. + ", + " + Why are quotes so popular? + ", + " + Everybody wants to be the leader. + ", + " + Prove that you are human, human. + ", + " + Not everyone is on social media. + ", + " + We are aware of the issue. + ", + " + Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and + deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken + ", + " + Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for + others?’ — Martin Luther King, Jr. + ", + " + OSH: Open–source hardware. + ", + " + Your web browser is not supported. + ", + " + Don’t be evil. Do the right thing. + ", + " + There are no adults in the room. + ", + " + The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish + you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. + Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist + because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the + words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with + him? — Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters + ", + " + No horse in this race. + ", + " + Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. + — John Cory + ", + " + Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their + property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton, + The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare + ", + " + If you analyse anything, you destroy it. + — Arthur Miller + ", + " + That’s how they write journals in academics, they try to make it so + complicated people think you’re a genius. — Terry Davis + ", + " + An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. + — Terry Davis + ", + " + But is it safe? + ", + " + How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to + journalists, and they believe what they read. — Karl Kraus, Aphorisms + and More Aphorisms (1909) + ", + " + Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand + judgment. — Elihu + ", + " + NP: Non—deterministic Polynomial Time. + ", + " + Dead Internet Theory: All content on the Internet will eventually be + generated by bots with artificial intelligence. + ", + " + The bit will flip. + ", + " + The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence + that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce + them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; + whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An + individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which + the wind stirs up at will. — Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the + Popular Mind + ", + " + Vote for Nobody. + Nobody will keep election promises. + Nobody will listen to your concerns. + Nobody will help the poor and unemployed. + Nobody cares! + Nobody tells the truth. + If Nobody is elected, things will be better for everyone. + — A mural in Guelph, Ontario + ", + " + Join our community to see this answer! + ", + " + Yama: becoming mindful. + ", + " + You must update now. + ", + " + Update now to send and receive messages. + ", + " + Just World Fallacy: A flawed belief that the world + is fair and just. + ", + " + Are we the bad guys? + ", + " + The greatest remedy for anger is delay. + ", + " + One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind. + ", + " + You will soon forget this. + ", + " + It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice. + ", + " + The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well + to his going. — Proverbs + ", + " + All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. + — Susan Sontag + ", + " + As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. + ", + " + Don’t confuse things that need action with those that take care of themselves. + ", + " + A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest + in students. — John Ciardi + ", + " + The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us + nothing. — Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) + ", + " + Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality — it just + makes the manuals thicker. + ", + " + The only thing humans are equal in is death. — Johan Liebert, + Naoki Urasawa’s Monster + ", + " + No two persons ever read the same book. — Edmund Wilson + ", + " + You have mail. + ", + " + Human Nature: A walking contradiction. + ", + " + No skin in this game. + ", + " + Nothing ventured, nothing gained. + ", + " + Don’t copy others’ homework. + ", + " + The Philosopher’s Stone: It’s either perfect or useless. + ", + " + Don’t break user space. + ", + " + The first thing to know about unlimited is that it isn’t unlimited. + ", + " + Build, don’t destroy. + ", + " + Couldn’t sign you in. This browser or app may not be secure. + ", + " + A few minutes until maintenance is over. + “So what happens when maintenance is over?” + You don’t know? That’s when maintenance begins. + ", + " + “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” + — The Wizard Of Oz + ", + " + Getting there is only half as far as getting there and back. + ", + " + “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing + was ever made.” — Immanuel Kant + ", + " + Barker’s Proof: Proofreading is more effective after publication. + ", + " + Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. + ", + " + The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. + — Buckminster Fuller + ", + " + When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever + remains must be an empty page. — Google Maps + ", + " + He that is down need fear no fall. + ", + " + Just don’t create a file called -rf. + — Larry Wall + ", + " + Woolsey—Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a + problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution + they cannot understand. + ", + " + I’m proud of my humility. + ", + " + It’s a questionable day. Ask somebody something. + ", + " + Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. + ", + " + This is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. + And now you know why. + ", + " + Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. + — Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary” + ", + " + If you waste your time cooking, you’ll miss the next meal. + ", + " + The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to + your face does not approach what your best friends say + behind your back. — Alfred De Musset + ", + " + All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time. + ", + " + Profits over people. + ", + " + I know what you download... + ", + " + Armchair Politics. + ", + " + Cutler Webster’s Law: There are two sides to + every argument, unless a person is personally + involved, in which case there is only one. + ", + " + An apple every eight hours will keep three + doctors away. + ", + " + Always try to do things in chronological order; + it’s less confusing that way. + ", + " + Wisdom is rarely found on the best—seller list. + ", + " + If you can keep your head when everybody round + you is losing theirs, then it’s very probable that + you don’t understand the situation. + ", + " + Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. + — John Lehman + ", + " + Leadership involves finding a parade and getting + in front of it. — John Naisbitt, “Megatrends” + ", + " + Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you + is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it? + — Anthony Hope + ", + " + Davis’s Dictum: Problems that go away by + themselves, come back by themselves. + ", + " + A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is + one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant + conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. + — Lisa Kirk + ", + " + Practice yourself what you preach. — Titus Maccius Plautus + ", + " + “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If + your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down + people’s throats.” — Howard Aiken + ", + " + Steinbach’s Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test + for an error condition you don’t know how to handle. + ", + " + Nothing succeeds like success. + ", + " + The only constant is change. + ", + " + Misery loves company. + ", + " + The cost of living only goes up. + ", + " + If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank + owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, + you own the bank. — American Proverb + ", + " + “You really think someone would do that? Just go on TV and tell + lies?” + ", + " + Ginsberg’s Theorem: + (0) There is a game. + (1) You can’t win. + (2) You can’t even break even. + (3) You can’t even quit the game. + ", + " + Commoner’s Second Law of Ecology: + Nothing ever goes away. + ", + " + The snake shall eat its own tail. + ", + " + Finagle’s First Rule: To study a subject best, understand + it thoroughly before you start. + ", + " + The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse. + — Issawi’s Laws of Progress + ", + " + The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between + two points. + — Issawi’s Laws of Progress + ", + " + The Dialectics of Progress: Direct action produces direct + reaction. + — Issawi’s Laws of Progress + ", + " + The Pace of Progress: Society is a mule, not a car ... If + pressed too hard, it will kick and throw off its rider. + — Issawi’s Laws of Progress + ", + " + SDSM: Super Duper Secure Mode + ", + " + Three–strikes Law: Three strikes and you’re out. + ", + " + Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! + Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! + Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. + Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! + Spam spam spam spam! + — Monty Python, Spam Song + ", + " + The world really isn’t any worse. It’s just that the news + coverage is so much better. + ", + " + If you’re careful enough, nothing bad or good + will ever happen to you. + ", + " + Never have so many understood so little about so much. + — James Burke + ", + " + To err is human – but it feels divine. + — Mae West + ", + " + Necessity is the plea for every infringement of + human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it + is the creed of slaves. + — William Pitt, House of Commons, 1783 + ", + " + Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. + ", + " + Polarize the people, controversy is the game. + It don’t matter if they hate you if they all say your name. + — Ren, Money Game, Pt. 2 + ", + " + “If it’s a bug people rely on, it’s not + a bug – it’s a feature.” — Linus Torvalds + ", + " + Everything is awful. + ", + " + Knowledge itself is power. + — Sir Francis Bacon + ", + " + Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. + — Sir Francis Bacon + ", + " + Conscious is when you are aware of something and + conscience is when you wish you weren’t. + ", + " + You humans are all alike. + ", + " + You may be marching to the beat of a different + drummer, but you’re still in the parade. + ", + " + You have junk mail. + ", + " + To do two things at once is to do neither. + — Publilius Syrus + ", + " + If life is merely a joke, the question still + remains: for whose amusement? + ", + " + The reward for working hard is more hard work. + ", + " + Nobody said computers were going to be polite. + ", + " + Tell me what to think! + ", + " + Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet + deprecate agitation, are men who want rain + without thunder and lightning. They want the + ocean without the roar of its many waters. — + Frederick Douglass + ", + " + Never underestimate the power of somebody with + source code, a text editor, and the willingness + to totally hose their system. — Rob Landley + ", + " + Now I lay me back to sleep. + The speaker’s dull; the subject’s deep. + If he should stop before I wake, + Give me a nudge for goodness’ sake. + — Anonymous + ", + " + “Man is the only animal that can remain on + friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat + until he eats them.” — Samuel Butler, The Note + Books of Samuel Butler + ", + " + Stein’s Law: If something cannot go on forever, + it will stop. + ", + " + Internet: Amazon + ", + " + A fool uttereth all his mind. — Proverbs + ", + " + Is nepotism a crime? + ", + " + Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10 to the 23. + ", + " + Position. Velocity. Acceleration. Jerk. Snap. + Crackle. Pop. + ", + " + Nihilism: The belief that life is meaningless. + ", + " + It’s easier to fool people than to convince + them that they have been fooled. + ", + " + If everyone is thinking alike then somebody + isn’t thinking. — George S. Patton + ", + " + Krishnamurti said, “It’s no measure of health + to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick + society.” — Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express: + A Memoir of Insanity + ", + " + Matthew Effect: For whosoever hath, to him shall + be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall + be taken even that which he seemeth to have. + ", + " + All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde + ", + " + TOSDR: Terms of Service; Didn’t Read + ", + " + GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your + access to all or any part of the Website at any + time, with or without cause, with or without + notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves + the right to refuse service to anyone for any + reason at any time. — GitHub, Terms of Service + ", + " + There is no such thing as a thing. — G. K. + Chesterton, The Prince of Paradox, Orthodoxy + ", + " + We built our website for newer browsers. + ", + " + Reality is a harsh mistress. + ", + " + We are living in a material world – And I am a + material girl. — Madonna, Material Girl + ", + " + Meritocracy is a myth. + ", + " + For the time being I gave up writing – there is + already too much truth in the world – an + overproduction which apparently cannot be + consumed! — Otto Rank + ", + " + Never trust an operating system. + ", + " + Advertising is a valuable economic factor because + it is the cheapest way of selling goods, + particularly if the goods are worthless. — + Sinclair Lewis + ", + " + We read to say that we have read. + ", + " + This file will self destruct in five minutes. + ", + " + Not every question deserves an answer. + ", + " + One person’s error is another person’s data. + ", + " + An expert is one who knows more and more about + less and less until he knows absolutely + everything about nothing. + ", + " + Welcome to hell. + ", + " + Social media is an illusion. + ", + " + We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. + — John Naisbitt, Megatrends + ", + " + The Akashic Records. + ", + " + I never did it that way before. + ", + " + Theorem: A cat has nine tails. Proof: No cat has + eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat. + Therefore, a cat has nine tails. + ", + " + The more things change, the more they’ll never be the same again. + ", + " + Society creates its own monsters. + ", + " + “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory + is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it + doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.” — + Richard P. Feynman + ", + " + Zero days all day. + ", + " + To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more + difficult to criticize the competent. + ", + " + In a consumer society there are inevitably two + kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and + the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich + ", + " + Golden hammers for sale. + ", + " + Beware of fake comments and reviews. + ", + " + This is the darkest timeline. + ", + " + Provides improved system stability. + ", + " + No country, however rich, can afford the waste of + its human resources. Demoralization caused by + vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. + Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social + order. — Franklin D. Roosevelt + ", + " + It’s great to be smart ‘cause then you know stuff. + ", + " + Sorry, the file that you’ve requested has been deleted. + ", + " + About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a + pencil with a blunt ax. It is equally vain to try to do it + with ten blunt axes instead. — Edsger Dijkstra + ", + " + There are two ways to write error–free programs; only the + third way works. + ", + " + “The lesser of two evils – is evil.” + — Seymour (Sy) Leon + ", + " + If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a + couple of car payments. — Earl Wilson + ", + " + Bloom’s Seventh Law of Litigation: + The judge’s jokes are always funny. + ", + " + It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you + mean it is. If you don’t, it’s its. Then too, it’s hers. + It isn’t her’s. It isn’t our’s either. It’s ours, and + likewise yours and theirs. — Oxford University Press, + Edpress News + ", + " + Savage’s Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you’ll get it + bad. + ", + " + Consumers love ads. + ", + " + Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. + — Forbes Magazine + ", + " + Don’t blame the victim. + ", + " + Law of Messengers: Shoot first, ask questions later. + ", + " + What if we put a browser inside another browser? + ", + " + The invention of the ship was also the invention + of the shipwreck. — Paul Virilio + ", + " + Everything is compromised. + ", + " + Nothing is as simple as it seems at first, or as + hopeless as it seems in the middle, or as + finished as it seems in the end. + ", + " + If a nation values anything more than freedom, it + will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is + that if it is comfort or money it values more, it + will lose that, too. — W. Somerset Maugham + ", + " + A person who has nothing looks at all there is + and wants something. A person who has something + looks at all there is and wants all the rest. + ", + " + This video is no longer available because the YouTube + account associated with this video has been terminated. + ", + " + Robert’s Rule of Order: Whoever has the chair has the floor. + ", + " + Twitter’s Rule of Order: Whoever screams the longest has the floor. + ", + " + In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. + Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, 1883—1971 + ", + " + Everything you know is wrong! + ", + " + This video was removed because it was too long. + ", + " + If you go out of your mind, do it quietly, so as not to disturb those around + you. + ", + " + We were so poor that we thought new clothes meant someone had died. + ", + " + To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism — to steal from many is research. + ", + " + Have an adequate day. + ", + " + “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different + world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein + ", + " + You must enable DRM to play some audio or video on this page. + ", + " + People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction + rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. + — John Kenneth Galbraith + ", + " + It’s always darkest just before it gets pitch black. + ", + " + Don’t get suckered in by the comments – they can be terribly misleading. + Debug only code. — Dave Storer + ", + " + Shedenhelm’s Law: All trails have more uphill sections than they have downhill + sections. + ", + " + Genius, noun: Person clever enough to be born in the right place at the right + time of the right sex and to follow up this advantage by saying all the right + things to all the right people. + ", + " + To know is to die. + ", + " + An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent. + ", + " + Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. + — Ralph Waldo Emerson + ", + " + There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and + that is not being talked about. + — Oscar Wilde + ", + " + Did you know that clones never use mirrors? + ", + " + Don’t be so humble; you aren’t that great. + — Golda Meir + ", + " + Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. — Plato + ", + " + Truly simple systems are not feasible because they would require near–infinite + testing. — Norman Augustine + ", + " + A tautology is a thing which is tautological. + ", + " + I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others + do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle + ", + ]; + } +} |