A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

— IBM, 1979

Of course there’s this meme out there that you shouldn’t invent your own crypto you should just use OpenSSL - although I’d say that meme took a pretty big whack over the last 6 months! - so, the problem is, people will keep telling you that you can’t go invent a random number subsystem just on your own, you’re the OpenBSD project, what do you guys know about random numbers? You’re Theo de Raadt, you can’t go do this. But the same sort of message is given to everybody out there, and it discourages anybody from even trying to build a layer which will do the right thing.

— Theo de Raadt

I had this crazy idea that I’m going to build a database engine that does not have a server, that talks directly to disk, and ignores the data types, and if you asked any of the experts of the day, they would say, “That’s impossible. That will never work. That’s a stupid idea.” Fortunately, I didn’t know any experts and so I did it anyway, so this sort of thing happens. I think, maybe, just don’t listen to the experts too much and do what makes sense. Solve your problem.

— D. Richard Hipp

le sigh… we cringe on.

— tylenol_addict

Proof by analogy is fraud.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

God rest his soul.

An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, anyway, an idiot - anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in academic, academic journals, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius.

Is this too much voodoo for our mission statement?

When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, “that bird has no idea what he's looking at”.

Here’s the problem: why are you making the world a fucking cattle feed.. lot. What is your fucking intention? We sit around, we fucking shit ourselves, and everybody dies. Ooooh that’s fun! What you really wanna do is you wanna make a fucking wild and crazy fuckin world, where from week to week, from year to year you get the most out of your fucking video game, okay? Life is a fucking video game. Julius Caesar man that fucker had the most intense fucking video game. Oh my god, he got kidnapped- fuckin crazy shit, kay? The winner is: the man who gets the fucking, most exciting video- why do you play a video game? “To get the high score!” NO! You do it to fucking have fun.