The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
Moira nodded vigorously. She didn’t know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.
Whuf added the dragon.
I have all the answers, it’s just that most of them aren’t right.
Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.
We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don’t have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.
I’m worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It’s not holding a charge.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.