Ýmsar tilvitnanir / Varius Quotations

What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go around the sun. If we went around the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Study in Scarlet"
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes
No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! -- Sherlock Holmes
You are absolute plate-glass. I see to the very back of your mind. -- Sherlock Holmes
66.13% of all statistics are made up on the spot. -- Unknown
"Elska sumir úldinn fisk\ útúr kæsta skötu\ eflaust betra er á disk\ allt úr ruslafötu."
"Aðrir vilja sykursull\ sötra út úr flösku\ sjást að lokum síðan full\ safna vindlaösku."
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. Thoughtful men have perhaps always known that we are likely to see things as we want to see them instead of as they are, but thanks to Sigmund Freud we are today much more clearly aware of "wishful thinking". - B. F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior.
"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" - Bertrand Russell
"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." - Irving Fisher, 1929.

X windows:
        Youd better sit down.
        Dont laugh.  It could be YOUR thesis project.
        Why do it right when you can do it wrong?
        Live the nightmare.
        Our bugs run faster.
        When it absolutely, positively HAS to crash overnight.
        There ARE no rules.
        Youll wish we were kidding.
        Everything you never wanted in a window system.  And more.
        Dissatisfaction guaranteed.
        Theres got to be a better way.
        The next best thing to keypunching.
        Leave the thrashing to us.
        We wrote the book on core dumps.
        Even your dog wont like it.
        More than enough rope.
        Garbage at your fingertips.

Incompatibility.  Shoddiness.  Uselessness.
        X windows.

X windows:
        Accept any substitute.
        If its broke, dont fix it.
        If it aint broke, fix it.
        Form follows malfunction.
        The Cutting Edge of Obsolescence.
        The trailing edge of software technology.
        Armageddon never looked so good.
        Japans secret weapon.
        Youll envy the dead.
        Making the world safe for competing window systems.
        Let it get in YOUR way.
        The problem for your problem.
        If it starts working, well fix it.  Pronto.
        It could be worse, but itll take time.
        Simplicity made complex.
        The greatest productivity aid since typhoid.
        Flakey and built to stay that way.

One thousand monkeys.  One thousand MicroVAXes.  One thousand years.
        X windows.
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X windows:
        Something you can be ashamed of.
        30% more entropy than the leading window system.
        The first fully modular software disaster.
        Rome was destroyed in a day.
        Warn your friends about it.
        Climbing to new depths.  Sinking to new heights.
        An accident that couldnt wait to happen.
        Dont wait for the movie.
        Never use it after a big meal.
        Need we say less?
        Plumbing the depths of human incompetence.
        Itll make your day.
        Dont get frustrated without it.
        Power tools for power losers.
        A software disaster of Biblical proportions.
        Never had it.  Never will.
        The software with no visible means of support.
        More than just a generation behind.

Hindenburg.  Titanic.  Edsel.
        X windows.