robin's quotes

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.

— Aldous Huxley

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A
language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a
very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

— D. E. Knuth, 1967

From inews' conf.h file:
/*
* Sanity checks (You know. Checks you get from Sanity Claus)
*/

I am easily satisfied with the best. -- Winston Churchill

"The SGI drool box. It's big. It's purple. It's modular."

— Aaron Marsh, Swarthmore '98

Profanity: the universal programming language

And sooner or later, one of your cats will step on your keyboard while
you're in the middle of editing sendmail.cf, and it will still work.

— Pete Ehlke, in alt.sysadmin.recovery

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment
somewhere.

— Stephen Wright

Ever wonder why they put Braille dots on the keypads of drive-up ATM's?

"The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which
failed to start because of the following error:
The operation completed successfully."

— Windows NT Server v3.51

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