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Internet nos ofrece diferentes medios para chocarnos con la sabiduría, y hasta para que nos alcance y nos atrape. Las siguientes citas se originan en mis raspones y magulladuras cuando se pudo dar la situación antes apuntada. Un día, con más sabiduría y tiempo entre las manos me dedicaré a organizarlas de alguna manera.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot
— Rich Julius
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.
— Marvin Minsky
“Oh, bother,” said the Borg. “We’ve assimilated Pooh.”
Lisp is the red pill.
— John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp
I’m not insane, my mother had me tested
— sheldon - the big bang theory
Engineering: where the noble, semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Oompa Loompas of science!
— sheldon - the big bang theory
You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
— Alan Perlis
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.”
— Groucho Marx
What is this talk of ‘release’? Klingons do not make software ‘releases’.
Our software ‘escapes’ leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in it’s wake.
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn’t take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
Lisp is not dead, it just smells funny.
Lisp doesn’t look any deader than usual to me.
— David Thornley, reply to a question older than most languages
An amateur practices until he gets it right,
A professional practices until she can’t get it wrong.
If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran.
If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.
— Guy Steele
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
— Henry Spencer
Under capitalism man exploits man, under communism it’s just the opposite.
My employers don’t acknowledge my existence much less my opinions.
— .sig from John Rouillard
Windows is easier than Linux, just like crapping your pants is easier than going to the bathroom.
— DR_K13
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
— W. Edwards Deming
«… y si es verdad que errar es humano, nadie podrá negarnos el mérito de haber alcanzado un nivel de humanidad realmente asombroso.»
— Joaquín «Quino» Lavado
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
— Philip K. Dick
Those who have knowledge. don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
— Lao Tzu
Please remain calm…I may be mad, but I am a professional.
— Mad Scientist
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
— Henry J. Kaiser
Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
— Arabic Proverb
La muerte está tan segura de vencer que nos da toda una vida de ventaja.
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
— Fred Brooks, Jr.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
— Robert Heinlein
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.
— Stephen Wright
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong.
— HL Mencken
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If you take a bunch of smart people and give them insufficient data, the hypotheses that arise are utterly ridiculous
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony Number 9.
— Erwin Dieterich
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
— Seneca
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.
— Jeremy S. Anderson
Los programadores que olvidan la Historia están condenados a aprender Java
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
«Adieu, then, Panawe! But do you wish to say anything more to me?»
«Only this, Maskull–wherever you go, help to make the world beautiful, and not ugly.»
— A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Deleted code is debugged code.
— Jeff Sickel
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.
— Gordon Bell
If you’re willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better.
— John Carmack
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
— Brian W. Kernighan
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.
— C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
When in doubt, use brute force
— Ken Thompson
Si la educación se basa en Software Privativo, nunca aprenderemos a pensar y a crear sino que solo seremos operadores avanzados de un producto comercial.
— Richard M. Stallman
Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
— W. Edwards Deming
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
— Confucius
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
— Peter Drucker
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
— Mark Twain
La inteligencia de una turba viene dada por el coeficiente intelectual de su miembro más tonto dividida por el número de miembros.
— Terry Pratchett
Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
— «Atlas Shrugged» by Ayn Rand
Dear Lord: Please make my words sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth.
John 4
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Sé quien eres y dí lo que sientes, porque aquellos que importan, no les molesta y los que les molesta, no importan.
— Theodor Seuss Geisel, «Dr. Seuss»
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
— Matt Cartmill
War doesn’t determine who is right. War determines who is left.
Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
— Ben Franklin
If a person talks to God, he’s religious. If God talks to him, he’s psychotic.
— House, M.D.
Learn to pause, or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
— John Locke
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
— Alan Kay
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
—Don’t know.
— Don’t care.
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do so.
— Bertrand Russel
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
— W. Edwards Deming
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
— Anon.
Los errores pueden ser muy antiguos, pero los años no hacen del error verdad, ni de la verdad error.
— Ellen Garmon White
El ruiseñor se niega a anidar en la jaula, para que la esclavitud no sea el destino de su cría”
— Khalil Gibrán
El tiempo es un buen maestro, sólo que lamentablemente, asesina a todos sus discípulos.
— Curt Goetz. (1888-1960).
My other car is a cdr.
Trying to teach good programming habits in VB6 is like trying to teach proper hygiene in a sewer.
Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can’t easily express complex problems in C, so you don’t.
— Erik Naggum in comp.lang.lisp
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Una vez recibió una carta que contenía una sola palabra: “Imbécil”. Y comentó:
– En mi vida he recibido muchas cartas sin firma, pero ésta es la primera vez que recibo una firma sin carta.
— George Bernard Shaw
We’re tired of banana software - shipped green, ripens at home
Desde el momento en que cogi su libro me cai al suelo rodando de risa. Algun dia espero leerlo.
— Groucho Marx
Disculpen si les llamo caballeros, pero es que no los conozco muy bien.
— Groucho Marx
Nunca voy a ver películas donde el pecho del héroe es mayor que el de la heroína.
— Groucho Marx
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
— Georges W. Bush
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
— Sandra Carey
El pie de mensajes de Eli Barzilay
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain
Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of the sermon.
— Mark Twain
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.
— A.H. Weiler
Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French statesman.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
— Revolution Books. New York.
Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
— Lawrence J. Peter
An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
— Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1
Please don’t assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list.
— Kent Pitman
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
— Alan J. Perlis
There are two types of programming languages; the ones that people bitch about and the ones
that no one uses.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp
— Phil Greenspun
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
— Aristotle
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed…
oh, wait a minute - he already does.
who | grep -i blonde | date; \ cd ~;unzip; touch; strip; finger; \ mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleepUnix is Sexy!
Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
Tomado de slashdot.org
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn’t have any children, neither will you.
A fanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
—Winston Churchill
Compañeros del exercito de los Andes.
…La guerra se la tenemos de hacer del modo que podamos: sino tenemos dinero, carne y un pedazo de tabaco no nos tiene de faltar: cuando se acaben los vestuarios, nos vestiremos con la bayetilla que nos trabajen nuestras mugeres, y sino andaremos en pelota como nuestros paisanos los indios: seamos libres, y lo demás no importa nada…
— Jose de San Martín, 27 de julio de 1819.
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall internet the earth.
The moon is covered with the results of astronomical odds.
Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department.
— Werner von Braun
Email is the gateway drug of the internet, because once email is in place, people begin to expect full interoperability.
— Clay Shirky
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
— Vivian Greene
Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan?
That’s nothing! If you play it forward, it’ll install Windows 2000.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintained their neutrality.
— Dante Allighieri
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
— Abraham Lincoln
