"There are three kinds of lies in the computer industry: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks." - Anonymous
"Linux IS user friendly. It's just not very promiscuous about whom it's user friendly WITH." - Button at Science Fiction Convention
"Computers are like drugs: highly addictive, incredibly expensive, and you keep having to buy more and better to keep yourself at the same level of amusement." - Lew Allen
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams
"USER, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'" - Dave Barry"My computer is so badazz, it performs illegal operations" - Ashley Brenner
"There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years." - E. Burns"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rich Cook
"...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth
"Ayn Rand is the father of object oriented programming" - Mike Harris
"Pointers are like really bitchy hot women." - Mike Harris
"Debugging is at least twice as hard as programming. If your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan
"Act in haste and repent at leisure; Code too soon and debug forever." - Raymond Kennington
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratliffe
"If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well - unless doing it well takes so long that it isn't worth doing anymore. Then you just do it 'good enough'." - Programming Perl, Wall and Schwartz" Randy recalls, "I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." "- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice." -- Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual