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Obviously you haven't had to work with Marketing!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I never said it didn't apply to IT. I'm simply saying not only to IT. More like, anyplace anywhere anytime 
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Zeker, maar het was Linux Torvalds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Umm that's not a drink holder ma'am. That's your CD-ROM drive"
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David Bradley was the guy that wrote the original code for CTRL-ALT_DEL to reboot the IBM PC. During a 20 year PC anniversary event Bradley and Bill Gates were both on stage as part of a panel discussion when the topic of the keys came up.
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." ~ David Bradley (IBM retired)
Gates didn't laugh.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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You're missing the S in Torvalds for the link, but don't quote me on that.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me instead of a frontal lobotomy.
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"The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac."
"The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it."
Yup, from my signature below...
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Chris Maunder wrote: what are your favourite IT related quotes?
"I have only proved the joke funny; I did not try it"
... a misquote of D.E.Knuth who famously said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", described here[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Come to think of it, the original quote is somewhat of a knee slapper too.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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linky no worky
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Actual call to support:
"My cup holder won't open"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know.
(IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)
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Was Rumsfeld talking about quantum computing instead of lying about Iraq? 
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Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence.
— Arnold Rimmer, Red Dwarf
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What? No-one posted the classic:
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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"I thought you called to confess." – said by a sysadmin as we investigated why a production server magically rebooted.
- great coders make code look easy
- When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?
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One of my favourites of all time:
"More people have ascended bodily to heaven than have shipped great software on time." Jim McCarthy
One of my co-workers once said in a meeting in which we were discussing null:
"There are many different kinds of nothing." Trevor Stokes
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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A story I was told by an engineer at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, IL was that there was a model of the S/360 that was so buggy that the engineers threw it into Lake Michigan where it...
Sank intermittently.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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you know that link goes to an essentially empty page?
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When I was in the Army, equipment troubleshooting always began with...
Make sure the O N O F F switch is in the O N position.
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Back in the Windows 95 age i had a program which throwed a random message from it's messagelist each day.
A few nice ones i still remember:
2B or not 2B, that's FF.
On an empty disk u can seek forever.
Press once to quit, twice to save.
Besides this i always loved DeeDee (from Dexter's laboratory),
"Dexter, what does this buttton doooo?" (Asking while trying)
And last but not least comming from a programmers book, don't recall which.
"There's no program on earth without a bug." <- Explaining that environmentissues can always let a program misbehave.
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Awesome! Looks like some screaming space monster... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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...of you still use C++/MFC on a frequent basis?
EDIT ==========================
I haven't used it since 2007.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 18-Jul-16 13:22pm.
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