Linux Computers

The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer.
                -- John M. Ford, a.k.a. Dr. Mike

        [If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session at Baycon, I
         believe he added that the beer-cooled computer uses "Forget Only
         Memory".  Ed.]

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland";
but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.

The bogosity meter just pegged.

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a
digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top
of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.  To think otherwise is to demean
the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself.
                -- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

The bugs you have to avoid are the ones that give the user not only
the inclination to get on a plane, but also the time.
                -- Kay Bostic

"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of
assembly language with the power of assembly language."

The clothes have no emperor.
                -- C.A.R. Hoare, commenting on ADA.

The computer industry is journalists in their 20's standing in awe of
entrepreneurs in their 30's who are hiring salesmen in their 40's and
50's and paying them in the 60's and 70's to bring their marketing into
the 80's.
                -- Marty Winston

The computer is to the information industry roughly what the
central power station is to the electrical industry.
                -- Peter Drucker