Computer Humor
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
--Fortune program, computers file
Lisp Users:
Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection.
--Fortune program, computers file
God is real, unless declared integer.
--Fortune program, computers or Linux file
If the designers of X-window built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
--From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990.
--Fortune program, computers file
The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
--Fortune program, computers file
Variables don't; constants aren't.
--Fortune program, computers file
Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O.
--Fortune program, computers file
I think I've got the hang of it now .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d X exit X Q :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz ^[ZZ ZZZZ ^H ^@ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d ^C ^c helpexit ?Quit ?q ^Kx /QY sync;halt
To err is human; to really fuck things up requires the root password
and along those same lines...
To err is human; to really screw things up requires a computer
--Unkown
Well when *I* was in school, I had to run Netscape on HP/UX, displayed on my local X Server running on a Windows 3.1 box. Displayed over a 2400 baud modem. Uphill. Both ways. In the rain.
With NOBODY to hold my hands. Because the life of the geek is a lonely life.
"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot, but C++ lets you reuse the bullet"
--JamesKilton at Worse Than Failure