Fortune Quote

Monday, November 10, 2014

Fortune Quote #829

A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
that make it fail. -- Jerry Ogdin

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Fortune Quote #828

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention,
with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. -- Mitch
Ratcliffe

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Fortune Quote #827

[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no
mercy. -- Joseph Campbell

Friday, November 7, 2014

Fortune Quote #826

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A
man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom
remains the same even for half an hour. -- Gurdjieff

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Fortune Quote #825

A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "go to Hell," sees
the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Fortune Quote #824

Give a man a new Emacs command, and he can hack for a night; Teach a man
to make new Emacs commands, and he can hack for a lifetime.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Fortune Quote #823

Black holes are where God divided by zero. -- Steven Wright

Monday, November 3, 2014

Fortune Quote #822

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the
more they are condensed the deeper they burn. -- Robert Southey

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Fortune Quote #821

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when
I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be
granted. -- Rabindranath Tagore

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Fortune Quote #820

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a
cheque. -- Brendan Francis