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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
Emacs is a good operating system, but I prefer Unix.
I wouldn't touch the Metric System with a 3.048m pole.
Punctuation is important. There is a world of semantic difference between "Damn straight." and "Damn, straight."
There's an argument to be made that beneath every cynic there is a frustrated romantic. (Fringe)
X.400 is the mail system of the future, and I hope it stays that way.-- Erik Fair
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."-- Paul Karl Feyerabend
A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine.
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.-- Brian Redman
I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other men's.-- William Blake
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over."-- Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague... The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.-- Edsger Dijkstra
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."
Arachnoleptic fit, n: The frantic dance performed just after you accidentally walk through a spider web.