"Windows 95: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition."
-- from an email signature. author unknown.

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
--C.A.R. Hoare

"Your average desktop user has the IQ of a lobotomized flatworm."
-- Signal 11(/. user name)

"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly."
-- Henry Spencer

and my sigfile:
-This email is made of 100% recycled electrons.
-If something can go wrong.... FIX IT!
  If it's Microsoft...delete it.
-There are three ways to get something done:
  (1) Do it yourself.
  (2) Hire someone to do it for you.
  (3) Forbid your kids to do it.


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