“There is now ten times as many lines of legal text about BusyBox than there is lines of source code.”
— Bruce Perens, Linux.conf.au 2012
“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”
— R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths
My 4-year old told me how a double-sided pencil can be used even if one end is broken. I told her how to say “fault-tolerant redundancy.”
— Chris Houser (@chrishouser)
“No one plans to fail. They just go online. Then check their e-mail. Then go to twitter… and it just happens organically.”
— Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)
“I can picture in my mind a world without war and without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
— Jack Handey (@Thinking_Deep)
“Joy, I think, is a tougher, gutsier emotion than despair. We’re not going to mope our way to a brighter future or better lives.”
— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen)
“I know that you gave us exactly what we asked for, but these are really not what we were hoping for.”
— Unknown, from Clients From Hell
“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”
— Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)
“Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.”
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi)
“Interpretive dance, when it succeeds, is still a failure.”
— Toby Hede, “Things I have learned from a lifetime of failure” Ignite Melbourne 2010
“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”
— Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)
“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”
— R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths
“Exercise machines are just torture devices with better marketing campaigns.”
— Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)
“Writing code a computer can understand is science. Writing code other programmers can understand is an art.”
— Jason Gorman (@jasongorman)
“Too much software productivity is measured by how far the bullet is from the gun, rather than how close it is to the target.”
— Richard Dalton (@richardadalton)
“Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.”
— Isaac Wolkerstorfer (@agnoster)
“I used to think I wasn’t a morning person, but things never got better after lunch.”
— Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams