Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, 
but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
- Louis Gerstner, CEO, IBM

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be 
a genius to understand the simplicity. 
- Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. 
- Pablo Picasso, the master painter and the inventor of Cubism

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, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer 
- Paul Ehrlich

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised 
to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. 
- Isaac Asimov, the sci-fi author

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
-Dave Olson


If you love something, write it in C; if it compiles, it is yours; if it doesn't, it never was.

When the code and the comments disagree, both are probably wrong.

One machine can do the work of fifty men. No machine can do the 
work of one extraordinary man.

If you were plowing a field, what would you rather use?  Two strong oxen or 
1024 chickens? [Seymour Cray (on massively parallel architectures)] 

To err is human; to deubg ... divine

To err is human; to forgive ... not the job of the Operating System.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features

>... File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)

Windows: Just another pane in the glass

Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.

The fundamental law of computer architecture: Good, fast, cheap: pick any two.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. 

APL is a write-only language.  I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them. 

2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.