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Logical Laws & Accurate Axioms
You can always tell a really good idea by the enemies it makes. --Programmers' axiom
Everything always takes twice as long and costs four times as much as you planned. --Programmers' axiom
It's never the technical stuff that gets you in trouble, it's the personalities and the politics. --Programmers' saying
Living with a programmer is easy. All you need is the patience of a saint. --Programmers' spouses' saying
Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives to produce bigger idiots. --Software engineers' saying
So far the Universe is winning. --Applications programmers' saying
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea. --Computer saying
You can't do just one thing. --Campbell's Law of everything
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. --Murphy's law #1024
...and sometimes the real trick is telling the difference. --Murphy's law #1024a
Whenever you use a jump, be sure of your destination address. --Programmers' saying
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long. --California saying
To you or the toad? --Niven's restatement of California saying
...well, most of the time, anyway. --Programmers' caveat to Niven's restatement of California saying
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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