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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| I have travelled the length and breadth of this country, and have talked with the best people in business administration. I can assure you on the highest authority that data processing is a fad and won't last out the year. -- Editor in charge of business books at Prentice-Hall publishers, responding to Karl V. Karlstrom (a junior editor who had recommended a manuscript on the new science of data processing), c. 1957 | |
| "Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus | |
| "In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Memories of you remind me of you. -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| There are bugs and then there are bugs. And then there are bugs. -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| My computer can beat up your computer. - Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Kill Ugly Processor Architectures - Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Weekends were made for programming. - Karl Lehenbauer | |
| e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap. - Karl Lehenbauer | |
| "If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Brain damage is all in your head. -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Karl's version of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to exceed the time alloted it. | |
| "Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| "It's my cookie file and if I come up with something that's lame and I like it, it goes in." -- karl (Karl Lehenbauer) | |
| "When in doubt, print 'em out." -- Karl's Programming Proverb 0x7 | |
| "Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| "Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing." -- Karl Lehenbauer, as amended by Jeff Daiell, a Libertarian | |
| "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT | |
| "The geeks shall inherit the earth." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| -- -- uunet!sugar!karl | "We've been following your progress with considerable -- karl@sugar.uu.net | interest, not to say contempt." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV -- Usenet BBS (713) 438-5018 th-th-th-th-That's all, folks! ----------- cut here, don't forget to strip junk at the end, too ------------- "Psychoanalysis?? I thought this was a nude rap session!!!" -- Zippy | |
| If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, Jolt Cola would be a Fortune-500 company. If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, you'd be able to buy a nice little colonial split-level at Babbages for $34.95. If programmers wrote programs the way builders build buildings, we'd still be using autocoder and running compile decks. -- Peter da Silva and Karl Lehenbauer, a different perspective | |
| "Nuclear war can ruin your whole compile." -- Karl Lehenbauer | |
| > From MAILER-DAEMON@Think.COM Thu Mar 2 13:59:11 1989 > Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255 "Dale, your address no longer functions. Can you fix it at your end?" -- Bill Wolfe (wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu) "Bill, Your brain no longer functions. Can you fix it at your end?" -- Karl A. Nyberg (nyberg@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu) | |
| How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read. -- Karl Kraus, "Aphorisms and More Aphorisms" | |
| If Karl, instead of writing a lot about Capital, had made a lot of Capital, it would have been much better. -- Karl Marx's Mother | |
| There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. -- Karl Marx | |
| Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Kraus | |
| The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. -- Dr. Karl Menninger, "The Human Mind", 1930 | |
| YOU PICKED KARL MALDEN'S NOSE!! | |
| Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy. -- Karl Kraus | |
