When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
Of course, unless one has a theory, one cannot expect much help from a computer (unless it has a theory)....
God is real, unless cast to an integer.
A hacker is any person who derives joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations.
Oct. 1986
Because vitually everyone was against us ... I knew we were on the right track.
/* * we mean to emit floating-point code. figure out what we want to do, * figure out who we are, and do the right thing. */
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
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
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.
