There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your
best friend will be the one sitting next to you
saying "That was fucking awesome!"
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
-- Isaac Asimov
"Last week, I left my 2 XP CDs on my dashboard in plain view. Someone broke into my car and left 2 more..."
[From an MIT job ad]
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
Many years ago a friend at General Motor's Delco plant in
Santa Barbara told me that they were doing a joint project with
the Italian company Maserati. The suggested name for the
join venture was, of course, GenItalia.
We were discussing how to pronounce certain computer names. Is "Linux" pronounced "Lin-ucks" or "Lie-nucks"? And is the editor "vi" called "veye" or "Vee-Eye"?
So we tapped them into our friendly Mac, and asked its verdict on pronociation:
"Linux" is pronounced "Lin-uks".
"vi" is pronounced "Six".
Politicians in government should be changed regularly. Like diapers. And for the same reasons.
UCB's "Bard" cluster has Sparcs named after Shakespeare characters. I thought this was a bad idea. If you're working on "Cordelia", or "Hamlet", or "Romeo", it's just *bound* to die when you need it.
when i die, i'd like to go peacefully.
in my sleep.
like my grandfather.
not screaming,
like the passengers in his car...
Windows/NT - From the people who brought you EDLIN