The Computer/Math/Science Quotes List Page
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate"
"Entropy isn't what it used to be"
"The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned" - Bruce Ediger
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones that can" - Zawinsky's Law
"Program code: thought that works"
"Calculate every possible destination along their last known trajectory" - Darth V. launches self-DoS
"I need another int, motherfucker!" - aq to Chris Ball, after drunken coding
"Unlike most boy bands, the core of SURVIVOR is a POSIX-thread based scheduler" - SURVIVOR about page
"Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for your account is crunchy and tastes good with ketchup"
"Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of."
"The Exchange Server has been down all week, but at least it's stable."
"On the face of it, Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black" - adamba, Kuro5hin
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it "
"Life is what happens during long compiles."
"Unix: Because reboots are for reformats" - Don Sullivan
"All that glitters has a high refractive index"
"Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know."
"Programming is like sex - one mistake and you're supporting it forever"
"Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means"
"I think, therefore I am. (For this one picosecond anyway--all my memories might be just a static ROM image.)"
"Will quantum computers run imaginary-time operating systems?"
"Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are quick to anger and have not need for subtlety"
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature" - Helen Keller
"A fool and his money are soon venture capital."
"Life's not fair, but the root password helps." - BOFH
"Real computer scientists despise the idea of actual hardware. Hardware has limitations, software doesn't. It's a real shame that Turing machines are so poor at I/O."
"If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...Oh, wait a minute, he already does."
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr
"In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. " - J. Robert Oppenheimer
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have hope of making progress " - Niels Bohr
"Scientific jargon is superior slang " - Sandra Raphael
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. " - Joseph Campbell
"In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. " - Kurt Godel
"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. "
"Life is complex. It has real and imaginary components" - Tom Potter
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea--massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. "
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. " - George Santayana
"I bet the human brain is a kludge." - Marvin Minsky
"Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code"
"I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on tape somewhere"
"Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code. " - Dave Storer
"We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. "
"I have a computer at one end of my desk and a crystal ball at the other. " - from a reader of this page (hint...)
"With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more." - Paul Lutus
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. " - Thomas A. Edison
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble." - The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days." - The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. " - Werner Heisenberg
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research" - Wilson Mizner
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