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Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you

— Someone on SlashDot

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.

— Unknown.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

— Unknown.

The code that is the hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly be wrong.

— Unknown.

You know it's love when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead.

— Unknown.

1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d.

— A T-Shirt

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, theUniverse is winning.

— Unknown.

If you want a language that tries to lock up allthe sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won'tmar the furniture.

— Scott Fahlman

COFFEE.EXE Missing - Insert Cup and Press Any Key

— A T-Shirt

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armourto lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatlyignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand,second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place.

— Douglas Adams

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

— Douglas Adams

After being told for years that technology is the path to a highly evolved future,it’s come as something of a shock to discover that a computer system is not a shiningcity on a hill - perfect and ever new – but something more akin to an old farmhousebuilt bit by bit over decades by nonunion carpenters.

— Ellen Ullman, Wired April 1999

Comedy equals tragedy plus time.

— Mel Brooks

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? SERIOUSLY. WHEN YOU GET RIGHT DOWN TO IT.

— Death (from Soul Music by Terry Pratchett)

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