Daily FortunesAug 4, 2007
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession...
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
We don't claim Interactive EasyFlow is good...
We don't claim Interactive EasyFlow is good for anything -- if you
think it is, great, but it's up to you to decide. If Interactive EasyFlow
doesn't work: tough. If you lose a million because Interactive EasyFlow
messes up, it's you that's out the million, not us...
We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to...
We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't...
We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the
hardware, but we can *see* the blinking lights!
"We invented a new protocol and called it Kermit, after...
"We invented a new protocol and called it Kermit, after Kermit the Frog,
star of "The Muppet Show." [3]
[3] Why? Mostly because there was a Muppets calendar on the wall when we
were trying to think of a name, and Kermit is a pleasant, unassuming sort...
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