"Paper or plastic?"
"Not 'Not paper AND not plastic!!'"
[Augustus DeMorgan in a grocery store]
Programmers never die - they just branch to a new address
Programmers never die - they just GOSUB with no return!
Zum Thema "einfach zu bedienende Software im UseNet":
Das ist so, als ob man ein Kleinkind mit einem Feuerzeug vor eine offene Gasleitung setzt.
[Andreas M. Kirchwitz]
Es wird Zeit, auch bei Rechnern das Zwei-Schichten-System einzufuehren.
Eine Schicht DOS, eine Schicht Erde, ...
USENET is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
[Joshua Heller]
Sigh. Gone are the good old days, when we were discussing whether mounting
a Windows NT machine was SM or necrophilia.
[Arne Ludwig]
Fluchen ist die einzige Sprache, die alle Programmierer perfekt beherrschen.
[Murphy]
"Das kennt man ja aus Western-Duellen: Erst schießen, dann fragen."
[Dr. Lehmann über Betriebssysteme]
Die Funktionsweise eines Computers heißt genau dann wohldefiniert, wenn man sein Verhalten in
mindestens einem Paralleluniversum als deterministisch bezeichnen würde
[Ch. Endres]
Massenspeicher zerfallen in Disketten-, Band-, Festplatten- oder Winchesterlaufwerke sowie in dem
Moment, wo auf ihnen wichtige Daten gespeichert sind.
Ich suche die Internet Yellow-Pages od. zumindest so etwas ähnliches als Datei.
Weiß jemand wo man das ftp'en kann?
[neulich in de.etc.lists]
Marsu: "Es gibt tatsächlich Leute, die ohne Computer glücklich und zufrieden leben."
Frankie: "Ach was, die emulieren das doch nur!"
"There can be only ONE operating system being relevant in the future : MS-DOS"
[Bill Gates]
If I start up a C shell and put it up to my ear, what will I hear?
You'd hear the sound of the C, of course, as it repeatedly crashes on the silicon beach.
[The Usenet Oracle, Jan 1993]
Ein Kommando kann gar nicht so kurz sein, als daß man nicht mindestens dreimal einen Tippfehler
einbauen kann.
[Murphy]
If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer.
[Chief Engineer Miles O'Brien]
Das 1. Problem: Es ist Information.
Das 2. Problem: Es ist lineare Information.
Das 3. Problem: Es ist falsche Information.
[John Barlow]
Ungeschehene Tatsachen können einen katastrophalen Mangel an Folgen auslösen.
Imagine that Cray computers decides to make a personal computer. It has a 150 MHz processor, 200
megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096x4096 pixels, relies
entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs about $300.
What is the first question that the computer community asks?
"Is it PC compatible?"
Das Planck'sche Wirkungsquantum ist der Heizwert eines Baud
[Max Demon]
"The three principle virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris."
[Larry Wall in den Perl5-Manpages]
1. Du wirst immer mehr Paßwörter vergessen, als Du besitzt.
2. Die Paßwörter, an die Du Dich noch erinnerst, hast Du letzte Woche geändert.
Wenn Du Dich dennoch an ein noch gültiges Paßwort erinnerst, gilt es für ein anderes System.
[Murphy]
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that
the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own
image.
[S. W. Hawking]
Die neue Cray ist echt schnell, sie arbeitet sogar eine Endlosschleife in 3 Minuten ab.
Bisher hieß es immer: Computer machen keine Fehler.
Dank modernster Hardware wurde jetzt auch dieses Manko beseitigt ...
[Holger Lamm über den Pentium]
(~)> make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
[Unix]
Der Mensch braucht länger zum Lesen als der Computer.
Wer nachlässig schreibt, legt dadurch das Bekenntnis ab, daß er selbst seinen Gedanken
keinen großen Wert beilegt.
[Schopenhauer]
Die Sprache, in welcher der Student lernt, seine Ideen auszudrücken, hat einen
grundlegenden Einfluß darauf, wie er später denkt und Erfindungen macht.
[N. Wirth]
Die Sprache beeinflußt, wie man denkt, ja sogar, was man denken kann.
[N. Wirth]
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure
to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
[Dijkstra]
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
be regarded as a criminal offense.
[Dijkstra]
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe.
It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
[Dijkstra]
Algol 60 has been a vast improvement on all its successors.
[Hoare]
As the UNIX system has spread, the fraction of its users who are skilled
in its application has decreased.
[Kernighan und Pike]
A program should do one thing well. There should be just one way to express something.
[Ritchie et al.]
Die Tastatur finden Sie, indem Sie das Kabel verfolgen, das mit einem
5poligen DIN-Stecker an der Rückseite Ihres Rechners angebracht ist.
[aus der CrossPoint Hilfe]
Sollte es jemals zu einer Kraftprobe zwischen Mensch und Mathematik kommen,
so werden die Menschen gut daran tun, die Computer abzustellen.
[Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh]
Wir produzieren heute Informationen in Massen, wie früher Autos.
[John Naisbitt]
What would I do differently if designing UNIX today?
I'd spell creat() with an e.
[Ken Thompson]
C is often described with an mixture of fondness and sisdain varying according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".
[The Hacker's Dictionary]
Ein Geek ist jemand der die trostlosesten Stereotypen über Hacker erfüllt. Ein asozialer, ungewaschener Brillenträger mit der Persönlichkeit einer Käsereibe.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Der AlphaGeek ist der Geek der Geeks. Wenn alle Fehlermeldungen lauten: »Sollte dieser Fehler auftreten, fragen Sie ihren Administrator« und du BIST der Administrator, dann fragst du den AlphaGeek.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Geek sein bedeutet für, durch, mit und wegen seines Computers zu leben.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Informatiker
leute die über ihre eigenen witze lachen können, die kein soziologe versteht.
leben von pizza. reden nur virtuell. lieben ihren pc oder über den pc. nettes volk.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Informatiker
komische Leute, aber hin und wieder trotzdem nett.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Programmierer sind Leute, die aus "Nichts" "Etwas" machen. Quellcodes spiegeln die Seele, Charakter und das Wissen eines Programmierers wider.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
Die Macht der Programmierer ist die Ohnmacht der Vernunft.
[http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/]
"It is a relief and a joy when I see a regiment of hackers digging into hold the line, and I realize, this city may survive - for now."
[Richard Stallman (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)]
"If a machine couldn't run a free operating system, we got rid of it."
[Richard Stallman]
"The straightforward and easy path was to join the proprietary softwareworld, signing
nondisclosure agreements and promising not to help myfellow hacker.... I could
have made money this way, and perhaps had funprogramming (if I closed my eyes
to how I was treating other people).But I knew that when my career was over, I
would look back on years ofbuilding walls to divide people, and feel I had made the
world ugly."
[Richard Stallman]
"While not obviously a business-friendly license there are certain aspects of the GNU license which are attractive, believe it or not, for commercial purposes."
[Brian Behlendorf on OSS]
"But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is itspast: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust bodyof software that solves many different problems and is reaching themillion-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now."
[Bruce Perens, on the future of Open Source software]
"The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy,while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from thoseof other products."
[Bruce Perens, on Open Source software]
"It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I meanwho hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?"
[Chris DiBona, happy he's been using Linux and can avoid such things, from the introduction]
"So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough,say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging, then I wouldbe able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model."
[Linus Torvalds on Portability]
"I'm not saying that they were knowingly dishonest, perhaps they weresimply stupid. "
[Linus Torvalds, commenting on those who really thought Microkernels were wise]
"The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast,the kernel, is inherently counter productive."
[Linus Torvalds on Microkernels]
"So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is Microsoft."
[Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design]
"If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently."
[Linus Torvalds on Microkernels]
"Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt."
[Chris DiBona]
"I am not convinced that they can write solid stable software. Proprietary software is already hobbled by it's secretive cathedral nature, but Microsoft seems to have a corner on
incompetent programming as well."
[Chris DiBona]
"The funny thing is if you actually read those papers, you find that, while the researchers
were applying thier optomizational tricks on a microkernel, in fact those same tricks
could be applied to traditional kernels to accelerate their execution."
[Linus Torvalds on Microkernels]
"The world is beating a path to our door"
[Bruce Perens]
"Computers and automation have become so ingrained and essential to day-to-day business that a sensible business should not rely on a single vendor to provide essential services... Thus it is always in a customers' interests to demand that the software they deploy be based on non-proprietary platforms."
[Brian Behlendorf on OSS]
"Nature abhors a Vacuum"
[Brian Behlendorf on OSS]
"The open-source approach is not a magic bullet for every type of software
development project."
[Brian Behlendorf on OSS]
"For something that does not exist, the Internet Engineering Task Force has has quite an impact."
[Scott Bradner]
"The basic publication series for the IETF is the RFC series. RPF once stood for 'Request for Comments,' but since documents published as RFCs have generally gone through
an extensive review process before publication, RFC is now best known
understood to mean 'RFC' "
[Scott Bradner]
"The IETF motto is 'rough consensus and running code'"
[Scott Bradner]
"Open Standards, Open Documents, and Open Source"
[Scott Bradner]
"In a way they were right, the basics of operating systems - and by extension the Linux kernel - were well understood by the early 70s; anything after that has been to some degree an exercise in selfgratification."
[Linus Torvalds]
"So here's a picture of reality: (picture of circle with lots of sqiggles in it) As we all
know, reality is a mess."
[Larry Wall]
"However, complexity is not always the enemy."
[Larry Wall]
"Suppose I want to take over the world. Simplicity says I should just take over the world by myself."
[Larry Wall]
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."
[Larry Wall]
"Computers may be stupid, but they're always obedient. Well, almost always."
[Larry Wall]
"You know, how is The Force like duct tape? Answer: it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
[Larry Wall]
"Of course, in Perl culture, almost nothing is prohibited. My feeling is that the rest of the world already has plenty of perfectly good prohibitions, so why invent more?"
[Larry Wall]
"There are a billion people in
China. And I want them to be able to pass notes to each other written in Perl. I
want them to be able to write poetry in Perl. That is my vision of the Future. My
chosen perspective."
[Larry Wall]
"Ich denke, daß es einen Weltmarkt für vielleicht fünf Computer gibt ".
[Thomas Watson, Vorsitzender von IBM, 1943]
"Computer der Zukunft werden nicht mehr als 1.5 Tonnen wiegen".
[Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949]
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
[Bill Gates, 1981]
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
[Bill Gates]
"The box said: Requires Windows 3.1 or better. So I bought a Macintosh."
[Unbekannt]
"The box said: Requires Windows 3.1 or better. So I installed Linux."
[Unbekannt]
"Wenn es im Jahre 1879 schon Computer gegeben hätte,
würden diese vorausgesagt haben,
daß man infolge der Zunahme von Pferdewagen
im Jahre 1979 im Pferdemist ersticken würde."
[John C. Edwards, brit. Zukunftsforscher]
Müsste, um die Welt zusammenzuhalten, nicht eigentlich immer jemand ununterbrochen auf sie schauen?"
[(Harry Mulisch, "Die Entdeckung des Himmels")]
Die Entscheidung liegt bei uns, den Usern.
[TRON]
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by
at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that
every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
The most successful method of programming is to begin a program as simply as possible, test it, and then add to the program until it performs the required job.
[PDP8 handbook, 9-64]
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague,
gut to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
[Edsger Dijkstra]
The more perfect a machine comes, the more they are invisible behind their function. It seems that perfection is archieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. At the climax of its evolution, the machine conceals itself entirely.
[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand and Stars"]
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact archieves when it is not longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. It is the result of the omission of the inessentials.
[John Pawson, "Minimum"]
The main aim of communication is clarity and simpicity. Simplicity means focused to effort.
[Edward de Bono, "Simplicity"]
Hacking is about thinking for yourself.
Hacking needs a place for meeting, discussing, testing, proving, questioning, designing, redesigning, engineering, reengineering, searching, researching, hacking, phreaking, brainstorming and understanding.
As our world is getting more and more complex, gaining and sharing knowledge is key to survival. There is a need for open communication and a free, unlimited exchange of ideas and concepts.
[CCC]
...what fascinates me is the unstated question that lies behind much of
our preoccupation with the computer's capabilities. That question is not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will
we be like? What kind of people are we becoming?
[Sherry Turkle, "The Second Self" (1984)]
I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for teaching but not for real programming.
[Brian W. Kernighan, "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language"]
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
[A.J. Perlis (1982), Epigrams on Programming]
C is designed to be written not read, Ada to be read not written and has too many ways of
doing things, too many tricks, and too much function.
[D. J. Andrews (1996), Teaching Programming]
Like any other street drug, C, or its more potent form, C++, destroys the brain while nonetheless producing a profound euphoria and optimism that any problem can be solved if
you just throw more ASCII (none of european crap) characters at it.
Sadly, like tobacco, the menace came to society's attention too late, and now a powerful
industry has sprung up around it to lobby against any government control.
[S. M. Ryan (smryan@netcom.com) in comp.lang.modula2, Mon, 29 Aug 1994)]
If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.
[C.A.R. Hoare (1987), The Emperor's Old Clothes]
An unreliable programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far
greater risk to our environment and to our society that unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or
accidents at nuclear power stations.
[C.A.R. Hoare (1987), The Emperor's Old Clothes]
The emotional input of math can be profound, as profound as any art or personal experience.
[Bjarne Stroustrup]
Cognition cannot be just computation, because computation is just the systematically interpretable manipulation of meaningless symbols, whereas the meanings of my thoughts don't depent on their interpretability or interpretion by someone else.
[Harnard (1993)]
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
[Andrew Tanenbaum]
Sage mir exakt, worin deiner Meinung nach der Mensch einer Maschine überlegen sei, und ich werde einen Computer bauen, der deine Meinung widerlegt.
[Alan Mathison Turing]
Hinter der Maschinisierung unserer Lebenswelten steht als universelleres Strukturprinzip das formale operationale Denken.
[Arno Bamm]
Die Technologie ist eine unabhängige Variable der irdischen Zivilisation, deren Verlauf nicht vom Willen des Einzelnen bestimmt wird.
[Stanislaw Lem]