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| * "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken * "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams * "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad to serve others by any invention of ours." -- Benjamin Franklin |
- "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
- "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
- "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
- "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad to serve others by any invention of ours." -- Benjamin Franklin