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 * Edit the FortuneCookies page to display randomly selected wisdom here.  * "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
 * "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- Rich Kulawiec
 * "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
 * "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 W. Kernighan
 * "If society were bound to invent technologies which could only be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting in caves sucking our feet." -- Gene Kan, creator of Gnutella
 * "When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire." -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between free and non-free software
 * "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- Saint Augustine
  • "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
  • "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- Rich Kulawiec
  • "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • "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 W. Kernighan
  • "If society were bound to invent technologies which could only be used entirely within the law, then we would still be sitting in caves sucking our feet." -- Gene Kan, creator of Gnutella
  • "When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire." -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between free and non-free software
  • "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." -- Saint Augustine

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