Fortunes
A collection of various quotes/fortunes I thought were worth preserving.
I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
-- Tom Waits
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if
you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart
enough to debug it.
-- Brian Kernighan
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament]: 'Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come
out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that
could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite
enough for me.
-- Thomas Pynchon
I hate my telephone. Please don't ask for my phone number.
-- Larry Wall
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone;
my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my
telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup