Freebsd Fortunes 6

Three rules for sounding like an expert:
        1. Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness.
        2. Always point out second-order effects,
           but never point out when they can be ignored.
        3. Come up with three rules of your own.

Throw away documentation and manuals,
and users will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away privileges and quotas,
and users will do the Right Thing.
Throw away proprietary and site licenses,
and there won't be any pirating.

If these three aren't enough,
just stay at your home directory
and let all processes take their course.

Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know
what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
                -- Bertrand Russell

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program
is its own hell."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "Let the programmer be many and the managers few -- then all will
        be productive."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
        be maintained."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "Time for you to leave."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "When program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Thus spake the master programmer:
        "When you have learned to snatch the error code from
        the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"