More cute quotes

[izmeina]

The difference between art and science is that science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else.
-- Donald Knuth, "Discover"

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII-- then we thought it was a typewritter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
-- Douglas Adams

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
-- Robert Wilensky

One World, one Web, one Program
-- Microsoft promotional ad


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indestiguishable from a rigged demo.
-- some computer guy (Unix fortune)

Old programmers never die, they just branch to another address.
-- Unix fortune

Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points.
-- M. M. Johnston

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer

Few things are worth repeating that aren't in quotation marks.
-- Jeff D'Angelo

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
-- Albert Einstein

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-- My old bumper sticker

You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
-- Snatch