fortune.txt

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.
A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail.
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
A large number of installed systems work by fiat.  That is, they work by being declared to work. -- Anatol Holt
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perlis
A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since it is a fundamental part of a computer. -- Donald Knuth