Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to bui — Rick Cook

"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?"

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