Rick Cook

"It is a pity the universe doesnt use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!"

"He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0."

"The law of similarity made any map a magical instrument."

"Its how you get rid of cats. You get a 500-pound parakeet and teach it to say, "Here, kitty kitty kitty."

"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea."

"What happened, get lost in the directory tree again?"

"Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and shuddered."

"Murphy said, Constants arent, and Murphy was apparently one of the gods of this universe."

"As flat as an open can of coke, left on a programmers desk over the weekend."

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again."

"What was that?" Jerry asked, peering over the edge. "I think it was a ninja dwarf." Wiz said wonderingly..."

"Always secure your files, you never know who is lurking about."