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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. (Alan Kay) Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. (Linus Torvalds) The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! (C3PO) True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it. (Timm Martin) C++ : Where friends have access to your private members. (Gavin Russell Baker)

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. (Anonymous) True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it. (Timm Martin) Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. (Stan Kelly-Bootle) Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare. (Blair Houghton)

Oh the irony of having a dog you name Sudo who doesn’t listen to you. HB