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Maravillosas fortune cookies #16

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:43:19 +0200

Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget!

Maravillosas fortune cookies #15

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:48:18 +0200

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support
rather than illumination.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #14

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:05 +0200

Esta es buena, y lo mejor es su autor, conocido escritor de novelas de ciencia ficción:

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
-- Arthur C Clarke

Para los profanos: se trata de un juego de palabras, ya que software en este caso no se refiere a "conjunto de programas de ordenador", sino que puede traducirse por "lo blando" o "lo suave".

Maravillosas fortune cookies #13

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:11:16 +0200

3rd Law of Computing:
Anything that can go wr
fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped

Maravillosas fortune cookies #12

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:56:12 +0200

Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #11

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:02:14 +0200

You know you're in trouble when...
(1)     You wake up face down on the pavement.
(2)     Your wife wakes up feeling amorous and you have a headache.
(3)     You turn on the news and they're showing emergency routes
out of the city.
(4)     Your twin sister forgot your birthday.
(5)     You wake up and discover your waterbed broke and then
remember that you don't have a waterbed.
(6)     Your doctor tells you you're allergic to chocolate.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #10

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:11:12 +0100

Watson's Law:
The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the
number and significance of any persons watching it.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #9

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:27 +0100

For good, return good.
For evil, return justice.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #7+1

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:56:07 +0100

People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #7

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:57:28 +0100

timesharing, n:
An access method whereby one computer abuses many people.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #6

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:36 +0100

bug, n:
An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect.
The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends
when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed.
-- "Datamation", January 15, 1984

Maravillosas fortune cookies #4

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:03:25 +0100

I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)

Maravillosas fortune cookies #3

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:30:38 +0100

All new:
Parts not interchangeable with previous model.

Maravillosas fortune cookies #2

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:34:23 +0100

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both.
-- Samuel Butler

Maravillosas fortune cookies #1

nospam@example.com (gersius) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:25:49 +0100

COBOL:
An exercise in Artificial Inelegance.