"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

"Most Non-Unix managers conclude that VI is either extraterrestrial in origin or was devised by the original Unix developers as part of a secret communications code to reach another dimension."
-Communications Week, July 26, 1993

"Now that I think of it, O'Reilly is to a system administrator as a shoulder length latex glove is to a veterinarian."
-Peter da Silva (peter#abbnm.com) in the Scary Devil Monastery

(Yes, I edit novels with vi and build them using make. Haven't figured out how to use gdb on a space opera yet, though.)
-"Charlie Stross" (charlie@antipope.org) in rec.arts.sf.written

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Artificial Intelligence

Computer Problem Solving, or: How To Be A Computer Genius

The 'Kamikaze' minimalist IceWM theme

The Books That Changed My Life

Fire Lusers--the prehistory of tech support.

Phil Agre's Virus Rant

Sysadmin/Tech Support Interview Questions

Hacker

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, by Peter Norvig

So You've Hired a Hacker (Revised and Expanded)

How To Become A Hacker

A Brief History of Hackerdom

The Hacker's Jargon File

The Tao of Programming, by Geoffrey James

Robert Bickford's "Are YOU a Hacker?" article

How to Ask Smart Questions

BOFH

ASR Coat of Arms

My preferred version of the coat, bend sinister embattled, with devil.

Where in the World is your Monk?

The Compleat Bastard (BOFH archives) by Simon Travaglia

Doom as a Tool for System Administration "Help! I'm being attacked by csh (pid 18729)!"

ASCII Character Set

User Interface Hall of Fame & Shame

Drinking Problem Tech Support

Invention and Exploration in Discovery

Technician's Rhapsody

Joe Thompson's rebuttal of the "moral defense" of Microsoft

dev/Linux

Tales of the Master

Jeff Prothero's rants

Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Web Site, er, Manor

OpenSource.org

American Science & Surplus catalogs of weird stuff

The Ultimate LART

LARTs through the ages

KnifeCenter

a rather nice catalog of knifes, utility blades, novelty sharp things, and the like. Very useful for dismembering lusers.

Scary Devil Monastery quotes

Emacs vs. vi - LinuxExpo Paintball

Infiltration, the zine about going places you're not supposed to go

MIT guide to lockpicking

essential for getting into the machine room at night.

Programming Epigrams

Cyphernomicon

HTML

as a single text file

The Anti-Mac Interface

exploring alternatives to the conventional GUI

MegaHAL

Geek White Pages (or here)

Geek Site of the Day

The Bastard Operator From Hell

Vaxtrek & other computer humor

Computer Folklore

Computer Art Posters Index

Unix Guru Universe

Conway's game of Life

Computer Science Technical Reports

101 Reasons Why You Can't Find Your System Administrator

Plan 9 From Bell Labs

not as terrifying as the Ed Wood movie

Sysadmin excuse generator

Risks digest

Dan Wallach's Typing Injury FAQ

ErgoWeb, Ergonomics & RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) company

CYC FAQ

Some critical thoughts on CYC's potential

Simes' TCP Towers stories

Cool Errors

IHTFP Online Hack Archive

Chaos Computer Club

Some fractals

Michael Hauben's home page

tons of cool stuff, like the Amateur Computerists' Newsletter.

Conscious Machines, by Marvin Minsky

Linguistics

Ottinger's Rules for Variable and Class Naming

Python

Pythonware

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Open Directory: JavaScript

okay, JS is really annoying and stupid, but it's useful sometimes

Netscape's JavaScript manuals-- if you're going to learn to use the dark side of the Force, go right to the Sith Lords themselves, I always say.

Design Patterns

PNG, the Portable Network Graphics file format

Free Compilers

Programming FAQs and text files

HAKMEM

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