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The internet and censorship

The internet treats censorship like damage and routes around it.

— John Gilmore

Linux is free

Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing

no obvious deficiencies

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

— C. A. R. Hoare

1980 Turing Award Lecture

you're the product

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

— blue_beetle

Re: social media, 26 Aug 2010, http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046

Never test

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

— Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming

Transputer

The lack of these features merely serves to make systems programming for the the Transputer an interesting exercise.

— The Helios Operating System, Prentice-Hall, 1989

The cost of nothing

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

— Alan Perlis

The Adventure shell

Welcome to the Adventure shell!
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike> fight shell
The shell hits! -more- you lose a file

— Dave Morrison

Artificial intelligence

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

— Raymond Chandler

Never trust a computer

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

— Steve Wozniak
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