The things they say about geeks
March 15th 2009 08:39
If at first you don’t succeed, call it Version 1.0.
Unknown
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Unknown
How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
Al Gore (on Y2K)
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.
Rick Cook, Wizardry Compiled
I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Unknown
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history — with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe, ratcliffeblog.com
I may have invented it, but Bill (Gates) made it famous.
David Bradley (inventor of the Ctrl Alt Del keystroke combination)
The box said ‘Requires Windows 95 or better’. So I installed Linux.
Unknown
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
James Coates
Girls are like internet domain names — the ones I like are already taken.
Unknown
Software is like sex — it’s better when it’s free.
(attrib.) Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel
Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn’t leave something that can be traced back to you.
Unknown
Alcohol and calculus don’t mix. Never drink and derive.
Unknown
The WWW is exciting because Microsoft doesn't own it and, therefore, there's a tremendous amount of innovation happening.
Steve Jobs
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
You know it’s love when you memorize her IP number to skip DNS overhead.
Unknown
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a UNIX user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
Linux? You can get a less powerful system, but it will cost you more.
Unknown
We are preparing to think about contemplating preliminary work on plans to develop a schedule for producing the 10th Edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual.
Andrew Hume
A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
(Attrib.) Todd Van Hoosear
Software undergoes alpha testing as a first step in getting user feedback. Alpha is Latin for "doesn't work".
Unknown
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I'm no expert but I was told by a friend last year, early April I think it was, that Linux is the backlight which illuminates monitor screens. My friend said this is the only thing which requires electricity in a computer system, and everything else runs off the 'solar' energy produced by the monitor light.
He said that was a simple explanation - just for me.
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(Linux is an operating system, Janet. It's a big deal because it's free and is Unix-like (i.e. big and scary and powerful... and runs from a command line, until people built X-Windows stuff on top of it). It's geekworld stuff, though - you have to do everything yourself, much like in the days of DOS 1.0)
My favourite geek quote is this one, from bash.org:
<tgr> i told my girlfriend that she's "math girl, doer of math: unable to integrate with society, only with functions of x"
<tgr> and guys, this is why she's my girlfriend. she said:
<tgr> "i could do a u substitution..."
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I had a dream last night where I was trapped in a small space with lots of whirring disks and aggressive motherboards, and crawling all over me, like spiders over Indiana Jones, were these little emails, all offering Viagra and frequent flyer point getaways.
It was terrible.
I blame geeks.
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... It wasn't a dream. (*cue dramatic music*)