"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Isaac Asimov

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein

"There is a difference between eating a varied diet and chowing down on a cup of lard and sugar once a day. Programmers know this instinctively: they balance their daily menu among the four major food groups: caffeine, sugar, grease, and salt." - John Walker

"Let's face the obvious: yesterday we were nerds, today we're the cognitive elite. Let's conquer." - Chester G Edwards

"I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers." - "Sherlock Holmes"

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates

"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers." - Leonard Brandwein

"The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password." - Elizabeth Zwicky

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-taxed" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs." - Joseph Weizenbaum

"Being a social outcast helps you stay concentrated on the really important things, like thinking and hacking." - Eric Raymond

"People that think logically are a nice contrast to the real world." - Matt Biershbach

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." - Seymour Cray

"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers." - Robert Hummel

"That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer." - Paul Leary

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match." - Bill Bryson

"Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous." - Albert Einstein

"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important." - Arthur Bloch

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdös

"Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement." - MIT job advertisement

"Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks." - Adlai Stevenson

"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard, too." - Linus Torvalds


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