Some quotation from [1] which I liked the most

1. http://www-crypto.htw-saarland.de/weber/...

“If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.”
—Robert Sewell

“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, co-creator of MIME

(In response to another poster's assertion that Windows NT is easier to configure than an otherwise-similar Unix system)
Indeed. With NT, I can usually see in a matter of minutes that what I'm trying to do simply can't be done with the available software.
—Daniel J. Bernstein

Windows: “Where do you want to go today?”
Linux: “Where do you want to go tomorrow?”
FreeBSD: “Are you guys coming, or what?”

“Help Microsoft fight software piracy: Give Linux to a friend today!”

“This is LINUX land, in silent nights you can hear the Windows machines rebooting.”

Why use Windows, since there is a door?
—Andre Fachat

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
—Clifford Stoll

Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often.

Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.
—Daniel J. Bernstein

“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry…”
—Henry Petroski

“…there is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
—Ken Olson, President, Chairman, and Founder of DEC, 1977

“The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected…”
—Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

“The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.”
—Larry Wall

“Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.”
(Seen on Usenet)

If the box says “Windows 95 or better”, it should run on Linux, right?
(Seen on Usenet)

“Python tricks” is a tough one, cuz the language is so clean. E.g., C makes an art of confusing pointers with arrays and strings, which leads to lotsa neat pointer tricks; APL mistakes everything for an array, leading to neat one-liners; and Perl confuses everything period, making each line a joyous adventure.
—Tim Peters

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
—Knuth

“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9.”
—Erwin Dieterich

That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible.
—John William Chambless

“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, 'Dijkstra would not have liked this,' well that would be enough immortality for me.”
—E.W. Dijkstra

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
—E.W. Dijkstra

It's important to have good cryptography even on small platforms because otherwise someone will hack your nanites to give you a really silly hairstyle.
—Bruce Schneier

Air Conditioned Environment — Do not open Windows.

December 32, 1999: We're pleased to report no Y2K failures!

If I had never thought about computer typesetting, I might have had a happier life in some ways.
—Knuth

Most good crime on this planet involves insiders.
—Bruce Schneier

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“Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice.”
(credited to a Sun reference manual)

2 strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender, “Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ” The second string says “Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated.”

feature, n: a documented bug
bug, n: an undocumented feature
—Mario S F Ferreira

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