robin's quotes

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death,
there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

— Guy Almes

I wouldn't touch ActiveX with a 10-foot polecat.
I might, however, let one loose on the developers.

— cddukes at eos.ncsu.edu

How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
The light bulb works fine on the system in my office . . .

To err is human; to really fuck things up requires the root password

I seem to be a verb.

— Buckminster Fuller

... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

— Robert Firth

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

— Matthew Arnold

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

— R. H. Tawney

"I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a binary tree"

C: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it?
O: Finest in the district!
C: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.
O: Well, it's so clean, sir!
C: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese....

— Monty Python

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