Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.
The error message is the Truth. The error message is God.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
If you've never seen an elephant ski then you've never been on acid!
But Hitler killed people next door.... stupid man.
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people."... But I think the gun helps.
I'm quite interested in death. In a kind of morbid way.
If I was Achilles, I'd put my foot in a fuck off block of concrete, for starters.
I invented a helicopter that went under water. Bit of a death trap. But the spark was there...
Facts are meaningless. They can be used to prove anything that's even remotely true.
We'll bring you the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, and because we've got soccer highlights, the sheer pointlessness of a zero-zero tie.
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
There are only two ways of dealing with women... and neither of them work.
Sentences long extremely and notation Polish reverse in writing about wrong is what?
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
God made only water, but man made wine.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Poor man want to be rich. Rich man want to be king. But the king ain't satisfied till he rules everything.
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
I think it would be a good idea.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an Arctic region covered with ice.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
The problem with computers is you *play* with them.
You can tell how far we have to go when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.
Some languages are designed to solve a problem. Others are designed to prove a point.
If rats are experimented on they will develop cancer.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time
Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious.
This array has no size, and that's bad.
Type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines 10-11 (I know you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)
A typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program.
Even though Mac Users may be only 10% of the market, always remember that we are the TOP 10%.
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
The next time we elect a president, for God's sake can we do a background check?
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
I do not like it, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative.
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
The half-life of not getting the point is forever.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Once... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquesting faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying.
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
If that turns out to be true, I'll quit physics.
The best way to execute french cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon apetite.
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
How inappropriate that this planet be called Earth, when it should clearly be called Ocean.
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
I detest the cancerous ooze of (sub)urban sprawl.
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
What year did Jesus think it was?
We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.
I love restaurants. You're sitting there and all of a sudden, there's food. It's like magic.
Turns out we've all been eating the wrong thing... since the dawn of civilization!
On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently 3 full-time, 24-hour news networks.
What if we all had the infinite power of gods, limited only by the constraints of backwards-compatibility and unanimity? Prove we don't.
Be careful, with quotations you can damn anything.
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble.
Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen, but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.
As the Romans showed us, sometimes to have a civilization, you have to obliterate some mother fuckers.
A mother and baby are the same age, as a 1 day old baby has a 1 day old mother.
Since crowds do not reason, they can only be organized and stimulated through symbols and phrases.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud. After a while, you realise the pig is enjoying it.