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public function quotes(): array
{
- return [
- "
- Augur: The priest of the sacred chicken.
- ",
- "
- We’re currently having technical issues. 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
- ",
- "
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- ",
- "
- 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
- ",
- ];
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