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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with A >> Quotes By Anon. |
| Quote #1: | "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng." |
| Quote #2: | "Optimization hinders evolution." |
| Quote #3: | "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." |
| Quote #4: | "If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes." |
| Quote #5: | "Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA." |
| Quote #6: | "Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME." |
| Quote #7: | "Don't steal. The government hates competition." |
| Quote #8: | "A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages." |
| Quote #9: | "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." |
| Quote #10: | "Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." |
| Quote #11: | "BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." |
| Quote #12: | "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." |
| Quote #13: | "Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though." |
| Quote #14: | "The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing." |
| Quote #15: | "I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself." |
| Quote #16: | "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." |
| Quote #17: | "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." |
| Quote #18: | "COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key." |
| Quote #19: | "One thing you can't recycle is wasted time." |
| Quote #20: | "Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted." |
| Quote #21: | "That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown" |
| Quote #22: | "The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out..." |
| Quote #23: | "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." |
| Quote #24: | "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." |
| Quote #25: | "Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye." |
| Quote #26: | "Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying." |
| Quote #27: | "If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation..." |
| Quote #28: | "All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." |
| Quote #29: | "Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well." |
| Quote #30: | "There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works." |
| Quote #31: | "Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." |
| Quote #32: | "Necessity is the mother of invention." |
| Quote #33: | "Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad." |
| Quote #34: | "Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." |
| Quote #35: | "Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk" |
| Quote #36: | "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." |
| Quote #37: | "Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." |
| Quote #38: | "Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it." |
| Quote #39: | "Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address." |
| Quote #40: | "Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique." |
| Quote #41: | "The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe." |
| Quote #42: | "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." |
| Quote #43: | "WARNING Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue." |
| Quote #44: | "Winners never quit and quitters never win." |
| Quote #45: | "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." |
| Quote #46: | "Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can." |
| Quote #47: | "Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best." |
| Quote #48: | "Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN)" |
| Quote #49: | "Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO" |
| Quote #50: | "Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." |
| Quote #51: | "Intel has announced its next chip the Repentium." |
| Quote #52: | "We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." |
| Quote #53: | "Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand." |
| Quote #54: | "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." |
| Quote #55: | "The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." |
| Quote #56: | "Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up." |
| Quote #57: | "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." |
| Quote #58: | "If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing." |
| Quote #59: | "Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns." |
| Quote #60: | "No one is listening until you make a mistake." |
| Quote #61: | "The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." |
| Quote #62: | "Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." |
| Quote #63: | "Great minds think alike." |
| Quote #64: | "Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN." |
| Quote #65: | "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." |
| Quote #66: | "Smash forehead on keyboard to continue." |
| Quote #67: | "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." |
| Quote #68: | "Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." |
| Quote #69: | "The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." |
| Quote #70: | "Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector." |
| Quote #71: | "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator." |
| Quote #72: | "If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." |
| Quote #73: | "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable." |
| Quote #74: | "Hit any user to continue." |
| Quote #75: | "An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing." |
| Quote #76: | "God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers" |
| Quote #77: | "Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet." |
| Quote #78: | "LSD melts your mind, not in your hand." |
| Quote #79: | "Silence is one great art of conversation." |
| Quote #80: | "A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." |
| Quote #81: | "Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." |
| Quote #82: | "Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename'" |
| Quote #83: | "CDOS CDOSRUN RUNDOSRUN" |
| Quote #84: | "Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window." |
| Quote #85: | "General Failure's Fault. Not Yours." |
| Quote #86: | "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." |
| Quote #87: | "A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." |
| Quote #88: | "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." |
| Quote #89: | "To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles." |
| Quote #90: | "Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS..." |
| Quote #91: | "Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green" |
| Quote #92: | "Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg." |
| Quote #93: | "Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..." |
| Quote #94: | "Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE" |
| Quote #95: | "Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered." |
| Quote #96: | "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door." |
| Quote #97: | "Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself." |
| Quote #98: | "Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever." |
| Quote #99: | "Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away." |
| Quote #100: | "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." |
| Quote #101: | "Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night." |
| Quote #102: | "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." |
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