The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a s — Rick Cook

"We learned dwarves are not meant to fly." came a voice from the edge of the circle."

"Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "Im glad we didnt build four processors. Im not sure I could take a barbershop quartet!"

"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."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."