quotes

"Happiness is a warm puppy", said the anaconda.

Using the conferencing feature of your office phone, dial one
Induhvidual, then while it's ringing dial another and conference them
together. Put your own phone on mute and listen to see how long they'll
make small talk before figuring out that neither one placed the call.

— Scott Adams, Practical Jokes for the Office

Maybe we should start a sysadmin themepark and name rollercoasters after
daemons: "Take the ride of your life on sendmail 8.6!" And how long would
roller coaster upgrades take?

— Tim Bandy, in alt.sysadmin.recovery

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes...

— Stephen Wright

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Mark Twain

Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

"I used to wish the universe were fair. Then one day it hit me: What if
the universe were fair? Then all the awful things that happen to us in
life, would happen because we deserved them. So now I take great pleasure
in the general hostility and unfairness of things."

— Marcus, on Babylon 5

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they
always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off"

— Charles Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_

How many C++ programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
You're still thinking procedurally. A properly designed light bulb
object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class, so
all you'd have to do is send a light bulb change message.

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