OT: Zitate für Admins

H. L. Mencken's Law:
Those who can -- do.
Those who can't -- teach.

Martin's Extension:
Those who cannot teach -- administrate.
(Sung to the tune of "The Impossible Dream" from MAN OF LA MANCHA)

To code the impossible code,
To bring up a virgin machine,
To pop out of endless recursion,
To grok what appears on the screen,

To right the unrightable bug,
To endlessly twiddle and thrash,
To mount the unmountable magtape,
To stop the unstoppable crash!
Oliver's Law:
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
Watson's Law:
The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the
number and significance of any persons watching it.
"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."
-- Franklin P. Jones
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly
big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug
store, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Bubble Memory, n.:
A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
See also "vacuum tube".
"My God, I'm depressed! Here I am, a computer with a mind a
thousand times as powerful as yours, doing nothing but cranking
out fortunes and sending mail about softball games. And I've got
this pain right through my ALU. I've asked for it to be replaced,
but nobody ever listens. I think it would be better for us both
if you were to just log out again."
--Marvin, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"I have made this program longer than usual because
I lack the time to make it shorter."
"At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the
computer."
"There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works."
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
-- Isaac Asimov
"A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is,
pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it."
Machine-Independent, adj.:
Does not run on any existing machine.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you
really make them think they'll hate you."
"CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.."
Quelle: http://www.macgyver.com

Grüße,
Arne (fritzo)