quotes

"Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Maximen und Reflexionen"

"Manchmal ging er mir auf die Nerven wie alle Künstler,
die sich für höhere oder tiefere Wesen halten,
bloss weil sie nicht wissen, was Elektrizität ist."
-- Max Frisch, "Homo Faber"

"Festredner sprechen im Schlaf
- anderer Menschen."
-- Jerry Lewis

"Es wurde schon alles gesagt;
nur noch nicht von allen."
-- Karl Valentin

"Wer in einem gewissen Alter nicht merkt, daß er hauptsächlich von Idioten umgeben ist, merkt es aus einem gewissen Grunde nicht."
-- Curt Goetz, dt. Schriftsteller und Schauspieler

"<desteny> noam war schon als kind np-schwierig"
-- IRCnet, #philosophie

"I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free."
-- Eris, Goddess of Chaos

"<panic> weil komisch ist auch lustig aber merkwürdig ist nur sonderbar"
-- IRCnet, #c.de

"We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake -- like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door."
-- Marvin Minsky, "The Society of Mind"

"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
-- John McCarthy, Attributed

"A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering."
-- Erik Naggum

"[The Tao] is like the extern void:
filled with infinite possibilities."
-- Tao Te Chip

"All things begin as source code.
Source code begins with an empty file."
-- Tao Te Chip

"<EasyRay> .oO(jetzt wieder das leidliche penislängenthema)
<sammlerSB> haste nen kurzen oder was?"
-- IRCnet, #philosophie

"Some of the better error messages from Apple's MPW compiler:
* "String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 more than ANSI said I should)"
* "...And the lord said, `lo, there shall only be case or default labels inside a switch statement'"
* "a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"
* "`Volatile' and `Register' are not miscible"
* "This struct already has a perfectly good definition"
* "Only one parameter per register please "
* "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)"
* "This array has no size, and that's bad"
* "Huh ?"
* "can't go mucking with a `void *'"
* "we already did this function"
* "The target of this goto is a label in a block that has an automatic variable with an initializer"
* "This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"
* "Call me paranoid but finding `/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious"
* "This function has an explicit return type and deserves a return value"
* "You are comparing two structures that have holes in them"
* "Too many errors on one line (make fewer)"
* "Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer"
* "Trailing comma not permitted in enum definition. (This time I'm letting you off with a warning)" "
-- Bruce Hoult, on comp.sys.mac.programmer

"Wer immer nur geliebt wird, ist ein Trottel."
-- Thomas Mann

"Was ist der Unterschied zwischen einem Bildenden Künstler und einem Karikaturist?
Der Bildende Künstler schneidet sich gelegentlich ein Ohr ab, der Karikaturist tut das nicht."
-- Loriot