• And thus we find that Win98SE boots in O(1) runtime, although with constants such that a good implementation of bogosort usually beats it in practice.
    -- unknown

  • Atlanta, Ga. - Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control today confirmed that hoof-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
    -- Thom Fitzpatrick (thom@calweb.com)

  • QDOS was just a stopgap. If I had any clue it would be so successful, I would have spent more time on it
    -- Tim Paterson, author of the Quick and Dirty Operating System, which was sold to Microsoft and subsequently evolved into DOS.

  • Yes, indeed it is true: NT is easier to administer than Linux. By the same token, a Cessna is easier to fly than a Tomcat. But which one would you rather take into combat?
    -- Jim Kirby, Network Engineer, jdkirby@bluebunny.com