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C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.
-- Ray Simard
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon
"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year."
-- Dixy Lee Ray
"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
-- Seymour Cray (on virtual memory)
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
-- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996, when he was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.)
The way some people find fault, you'd think there was a reward.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
"Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom."
-- Eric S. Raymond
"Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems."
-- Homer Simpson
We shame outselves for the sake of simplicity.
No job is so simple that is can't be done wrong.
"Good food, good meat, good god - let's eat!"
-- Prayer by Homer Simpson
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
-- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996, when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.)
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Homer Simpson
"Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant."
Is simplicity best or simply the easiest?
-- Depeche Mode
Critics think that things should be done in good taste. Most people think that things should just taste good.
-- Gene Simmons
If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
We may begin to see reality differently simply because the computer ... provides a different angle on reality.
-- Heinz Pagels
"Almost any animal is capable learning a stimulus/response association, given enough repitition."
"Experimental observation suggests that this isn't true if double-clicking is involved."
-- Lionel and Malcom Ray (scary devil monastery)
"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
-- Raymond Chandler
Lost: gray and white female cat. Answers to electric can opener.