"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