Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these
days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate
with the people they love; Husbands and wives who can't communicate, children
who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in
these books and plays and so on (and in real life, I might add) spend hours
bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't
communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!
– Tom Lehrer, “That Was the Year that Was”
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
– Garrison Keillor
How sharper than a serpent's tooth is a sister's “See?”
– Linus Van Pelt
We all know Linux is great…it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
– Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
– Albert Einstein
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
– Edsger Dijkstra about “Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code”