Favorite Programming Quotes

Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
Anonymous Code Monkey

http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/08/17/favorite-programming-quotes/

The monetary density of things

Of course, gold isn’t the only precious metal, or even the most expensive. That “honor” belongs to rhodium, whose price far exceeds that of its weight in $100 bills. There’s an interesting coincidence in this price range: Cocaine is about $50/gram, while a fifty dollar bill weighs about a gram. Even exchange? Platinum is also in the same price range, so you could say that $50 bills are worth their weight in platinum.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/density

Bill Clinton: It’s just like those motherfuckers

Former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Wednesday night will be broadcast on a five-second delay similar to that used to screen callers on talk radio programs, party officials confirmed today.

The five-second delay, customarily used to censor callers who might use profanity or other unacceptable speech on a radio show, has never before been used in the broadcast of a speech by a former President of the United States, experts believe.

For his part, former President Clinton said that he was “surprised” by the DNC’s decision to institute the five-second delay, but added, “It’s just like those motherfuckers.”

http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=6926

Pears sink while apples float

We also knew that pears have a much lower amount of void spaces inside because pears sink to the bottom if you drop them in water whereas apples float, which indicates that one has more air than the other one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The BIG cat who likes getting wet and wild

Go tiger! This Big Cat seems as comfortable in the water as on land

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Which is worse ignorance or apathy?

I don’t know and I don’t care.

http://answers.yahoo.com/

The internet is still very young

After working on the internet for more than three decades, I’m more optimistic about its promise than ever. It has the potential to change unexpected parts of our lives: from surfboards that let you surf the web while you wait for the next wave to refrigerators that can email you suggested recipes based on the food you already have.

Vint Cerf, a vice president of Google

FOX News caught using NLP Neuro-linguistic programming

NLP is a sort of mental hypnosis or seed planting used by magicians such as Derren Brown. If done correctly the NLP operator can use hand gestures or word patterns to make you believe anything they want.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/

Mikheil Saakashvili

“Unfortunately, today we are looking evil directly in the eye. And today this evil is very strong, very nasty and very dangerous, for everybody, not only for us.”

http://www.nytimes.com/

Useless Body Parts

WISDOM TEETH
Early humans had to chew a lot of plants to get enough calories to survive, making another row of molars helpful. Only about 5 percent of the population has a healthy set of these third molars.

https://notes.utk.edu/Bio/greenberg.nsf/0/0765bb50d404455385256f0000680854?OpenDocument&Click=/