SysAdmin Day & Programming Quotes

Developers, Engineers, Admins' Unite!

Some fav quotes (placed without attribution) stolen from:

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch/pa
ges/SE-quotes.htm?type=funnyQuotes

<Programmer's Drinking Song (sung to the tune of
"100 Bottles of Beer'')>

99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code,
fix one bug, compile it again,
101 little bugs in the code.
101 little bugs in the code....
(Repeat until BUGS = 0) 


I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an
accident. 

Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have
time to do it over?. 

Any fool can use a computer. Many do. 

There's an old story about the person who wished his
computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has
come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone. 


There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the
third works. 

### For my Levi's Brethren Out There ###

1.) If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would
delete themselves upon execution. 

2.) If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0 


Finally:  Unix was not designed to stop people from doing
stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing
clever things. 

Have a good day,

David











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On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:33 AM, David jl Rieger wrote:

> Why do we never have time to do it right, but always
have time to  
> do it over?.

A few of my faves (from the depths of my addled brain, not
the source  
David points to):
Fast. Cheap. Good. Pick two.

One should not use an elephant gun to shoot a mouse.

Murphy was an optimist.

DOS: Unix, with all of the complexity but none of the
power.

JAFL: Just Another $#^$ing Language

Ian

Ian Crew
Supervisor, Collaboration Services
Information Services and Technology-Data Services
University of California, Berkeley
2195 Hearst Ave, Second Floor
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