Fortune Quote #859

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
those who would gain by the new ones. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

Fortune Quote #858

[It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time. -- K&R

Fortune Quote #857

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining. -- Jeff Raskin

Fortune Quote #856

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery.
But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is
somehow ennobled and no-one dare criticize it. -- Pierre Gallois

Fortune Quote #855

If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it
happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy.

Fortune Quote #854

It has been said that physicists stand on one another's shoulders. If
this is the case, then programmers stand on one another's toes, and
software engineers dig each other's graves.

Fortune Quote #853

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the
first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization."

Fortune Quote #852

I've finally learned what "upward compatible" means. It means we get to
keep all our old mistakes. -- Dennie van Tassel

Fortune Quote #851

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov

Fortune Quote #850

How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?