Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 11, 2025
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.
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Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled  
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I  
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)  
Adventure is just bad planning.
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Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)  
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