Linux Cookie

"Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few
 simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'."
 --John Sladek

"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
 --Frank Zappa

Here is an Appalachian version of management's answer to those who are
concerned with the fate of the project:
"Don't worry about the mule.  Just load the wagon."
-- Mike Dennison's hillbilly uncle

Ill-chosen abstraction is particularly evident in the design of the ADA
runtime system. The interface to the ADA runtime system is so opaque that
it is impossible to model or predict its performance, making it effectively
useless for real-time systems. -- Marc D. Donner and David H. Jameson.

"Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing."
-- Karl Lehenbauer

"Here comes Mr. Bill's dog."
-- Narrator, Saturday Night Live

Sex is like air.  It's only a big deal if you can't get any.

"Maintain an awareness for contribution -- to your schedule, your project,
our company."
-- A Group of Employees

"Ask not what A Group of Employees can do for you.  But ask what can
All Employees do for A Group of Employees."
-- Mike Dennison

One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner
alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic.
   "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, _The Biography of a Dead Cow_, is
 published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship.
 Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century.
 Do you think that fair criticism?"
   "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not
occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it."
-- Ambrose Bierce