+%
+ THE LAST BUG
+
+"But you're out of your mind," It still wasn't perfect,
+They said with a shrug. As year followed year,
+"The customer's happy; And strangers would comment,
+What's one little bug?" "Is that guy still here?"
+
+But he was determined. He died at the console,
+The others went home. Of hunger and thirst.
+He spread out the program, Next day he was buried,
+Deserted, alone. Face down, nine-edge first.
+
+The cleaning men came, And the last bug in sight,
+The whole room was cluttered An ant passing by,
+With memory-dumps, punch cards. Saluted his tombstone,
+"I'm close," he muttered. And whispered, "Nice try."
+
+The mumbling got louder,
+Simple deduction,
+"I've got it, it's right,
+Just change one instruction."
+%
+Speaking of the philosophy involved in moving humanity into space:
+
+Furniture will be a largely obsolete concept. Take for example the dresser my
+mom bought for me when I was a kid. I still have it, and by the standards of
+its era, it's an admirable household fixture. It is a massive construction of
+maple wood, expertly joined with cunningly fit pieces, fitted and glued with
+the strength of iron. It is set with massive brass fixtures, and looks today
+-- discounting the dust -- as new as the day it was purchased, a quarter
+century ago. So far, so good; a fine piece of furniture, you might say. But
+let's look at it objectively, as a machine, as an object with a purpose. Here
+sit a hundred pounds of hardwood with a compressive strength of 1500 psi,
+jointed by an expert craftsman into a rigid box that would easily support a
+bull elephant. And what is the sole purpose of this massive crate, this
+monument to a dead tree? -- it holds my socks.
+
+Not only is it blind engineering overkill of epic proportions, it is also an
+environmental disaster. The home to generations of squirrels, a sentinel post
+for falcons, an autumnal banner of golden glory, a living creature, was chopped
+down to enshrine some underwear. This, my friends, is no way to run a planet.
+ -- Marshall T. Savage, from The Millennial Project:
+ Colonizing the Galaxy -- In Eight Easy Steps
+%
+Nearly every software professional has heard the term spaghetti code as a
+pejorative description for complicated, difficult to understand, and impossible
+to maintain, software. However, many people may not know the other two
+elements of the complete Pasta Theory of Software.
+
+Lasagna code is used to describe software that has a simple, understandable,
+and layered structure. Lasagna code, although structured, is unfortunately
+monolithic and not easy to modify. An attempt to change one layer conceptually
+simple, is often very difficult in actual practice.
+
+The ideal software structure is one having components that are small and
+loosely coupled; this ideal structure is called ravioli code. In ravioli
+code, each of the components, or objects, is a package containing some meat
+or other nourishment for the system; any component can be modified or replaced
+without significantly affecting other components.
+
+We need to go beyond the condemnation of spaghetti code to the active
+encouragement of ravioli code.
+ -- Raymond J. Rubey, in a letter to the editor of Crosstalk
+ magazine
+%
+63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
+ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
+now there's 63,005 bugs in the code!!
+%
+"It's not very common in Crowthorne"
+%
+ 1) Don't expect fairings.
+ 2) If confused read #1.
+%
+Cheer up. You could have all the problems you have now, and then also
+be named Eustace Clarence Scrubb.
+%
+Never leave a macassar and an antimacassar in the same room together.
+%
+Why did the furry install Unix? Because it supports catman.
+%
+Many people don't realize that trailhead doggerel is illegal -- but
+surely you've heard of "hike rhymes and misdemeanors"...
+%
+We all know political bumper stickers and some of us even put them on
+our cars. However, if you show up at headquarters on Friday afternoon
+after a long campaign week, you're more likely to see a stumper
+bicker.
+%
+When you're under siege by a winter storm, that's a "frontal assault".
+%
+Somebody has mail.
+%
+'Agnosis' is when you don't know. 'Diagnosis' is when you don't know
+twice.
+%
+An assortment of ways to be assimilated is a "smorgasborg".
+%
+The Navy's forever doomed to be inefficient because it's always trying
+to do things in a sub-optimal manner.
+%
+Q. What do you do if you find an abomination rooted in and need a
+druid in a hurry?
+A. Call the copse.
+%
+A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
+ -- Jo Godwin
+%
+Give a man a 0day and he'll have access for a day, teach a man to phish
+and he'll have access for life.
+ -- the grugq
+%
+Information wants to be free and also extremely difficult to use.
+ -- An ancient open source proverb
+%
+I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
+ -- Mitch Hedberg
+%
+You, the Poles, have a funny nature. When the people going along the
+road are attacked by a dog with its insistent and noisy barking, you
+immediately feel like jumping off the vehicle, standing on all fours
+and starting to bark back at it. We, in the Vilnius region, let the
+dog bark because that is what its canine nature is like but we do not
+stop our journey because of its barking, and without any war
+against dogs we calmly continue our journey until we reach our
+destination. It seems that you care more about barking than the dog
+does, and more about winning the war with any lousy puppy than about
+reaching the destination quickly.
+ -- Jozef Pilsudski
+%
+[NeXT] attracted the strangest kind of hybrid, which was sort of like...
+Unix weenies by Armani.
+ -- John Perry Barlow
+%
+Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you
+and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future
+events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the
+unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here.
+ -- Criswell Predicts, "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
+%
+Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext.
+ -- Bob Morris, Crypto '95
+%
+Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is
+writing it down.
+ -- Adam Savage
+%
+ THE PURPLE COW Confession: and a Portrait, Too,
+Reflections on a Mythic Beast, Upon a Background that I Rue!
+ Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least.
+ Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow"--
+I never saw a Purple Cow; I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!
+ I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow,
+But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!
+ I'd rather see than be one. -- Gelett Burgess
+%
+Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we
+can perform without thinking about them.
+ -- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
+%
+I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter
+than a season.
+ -- Josh Rosen
+%
+Computers for the brasses -- art for the masses.
+ -- J.C.R. Licklider
+%
+If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a
+computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day, and
+that was instantly responsive to every action you had, how much value could
+you derive from that?
+ -- Douglas Engelbart, Fall Joint Computer Conference,
+ December 9th, 1968
+%
+They made me do it
+%
+It was the first thing that I formed a really powerful bond with.
+It was some sort of mental love missile and I just lit the touch paper and
+fired myself into it, at oblivious speed, and it exploded, and sparkled and it
+was totally beautiful.
+ -- Chris Packham and the kestrel
+%
+Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by
+there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.
+ -- Alexei Sayle
+%
+I wonder why. I wonder why.
+I wonder why I wonder.
+I wonder why I wonder why
+I wonder why I wonder!
+ -- Richard P. Feynman, "Always Trying to Escape"
+%
+Fanfare, n.:
+ The food available for consumption at a con.
+%
+Fail we may, sail we must
+%
+Don't shout at your JBODs, they don't like it!
+ -- Brendan Gregg, "Shouting in the Datacenter"
+%
+Bell has two patents on UNIX
+a) set-user-id bit
+b) on "typo" !
+ -- John Lions, Australian UNIX Users Group Newsletter, Oct 1978
+%
+The purpose of computing numbers is not yet in sight
+%
+Iamonthemoonandthereisnowheretogetabeer.
+Thereisnospacebar.
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