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A spell cast over a computer

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

— Anonymous

We can lick gravity

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

— Werner Von Braun

We can walk

  • We can walk our road together if our goals are the same.
  • We can run alone and free if we persue a different aim.
— Install Notes, NetBSD 0.8, 1993

Do the right thing

/*
* we mean to emit floating-point code. figure out what we want to do,
* figure out who we are, and do the right thing.
*/

— comment from the portable C-compiler

We cause accidents

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

— Nathaniel Borenstein

Everyone was against us

Because vitually everyone was against us ... I knew we were on the right track.

— Dr. Marshall T. Rose

A million monkeys

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

— Robert Wilensky

ILP 1996

A hacker is

A hacker is any person who derives joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations.

— Bob Bickford

Oct. 1986

God is real

God is real, unless cast to an integer.

Our advantage at Microsoft

That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them.

— Karen Hargrove

of Microsoft, quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial

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