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#1601And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
#1602Another megabytes the dust.
#1603Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
#1604Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
#1605Any program which runs right is obsolete.
#1606Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used.
#1607... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer,
my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any
resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The
question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them
is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of
the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A
discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope
of this article.)
#1608Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
-- Rich Kulawiec
#1609Anyone who has attended a USENIX conference in a fancy hotel can tell you
that a sentence like "You're one of those computer people, aren't you?"
is roughly equivalent to "Look, another amazingly mobile form of slime
mold!" in the mouth of a hotel cocktail waitress.
-- Elizabeth Zwicky
#1610APL hackers do it in the quad.
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