Sayings, Quotes and Comments

Here a lot of quotes and sayings that I came across can be found. Also, some creations done by me are listed, and to some quotes I added some thoughts that go beyond.

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Würzburg, 2026	Rüth, W.	easy to handle - quick win - shelf ware - out of the box
Würzburg, 2026	Buckingham, M.	"People don’t leave companies, they leave managers."
Würzburg, 2026	Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind	After all, tomorrow is another day.
Würzburg, 2026	They Live, by John Carpenter	And many still haven't understood that to this day "OBEY! CONSUME! SLEEP!"
Würzburg, 2026	Brandolinis Low (Brandolinis Bullshit-Asymmetrie-Principle)	"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than is needed to produce it."
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	Its training not luck.
Würzburg, 2026	Kennedy, J. F. 20.01.1961, Inaugural address	"But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war."
Würzburg, 2026	Bob Hope	"As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn’t been touched by the war and blew it to hell."
Würzburg, 2026	Hanson, A, Windows Update: More control over updates and fewer restarts, Microsoft Windows Insider Blog, 24.04.2026	"There are few things more frustrating than sitting down to use your computer, only to find that it requires an update. Worse, is when this happens multiple times in a given month."
Würzburg, 2026	Bonmann, M.	"What's missing isn't effort - it's impact."
Würzburg, 2026	Adams, D., Mostly Harmless, 1992	"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Würzburg, 2026	de Saint-Exupéry, A.	"Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. "
Würzburg, 2026	Raymond, E. S., The Cathedral and the Bazaar. First Monday, 3(3), 1998	The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Lessons for creating good open source software Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). Plan to throw one [version] away; you will, anyhow (copied from Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month). If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around. If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource. The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better. Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong. Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. (Attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible—and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to! When your [configuration] language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you. Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet, and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.
Würzburg, 2026	Associated Press (AP), RadioShack fires 400 by e-mail, 30.08.2006, original notification email sent to employees at RadioShack Corporation, 29.08.2006	"The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated."
Würzburg, 2026	Tandy, C. D., cited by: Inside RadioShack's slow-motion collapse: Why the fall of the 94-year-old electronics chain didn't have to be this way, Financial Post. 02/06/2015, retrieved 10/16/2018	Charles D. Tandy said "We're not looking for the guy who wants to spend his entire paycheck on a sound system", instead seeking customers "looking to save money by buying cheaper goods and improving them through modifications and accessorizing", making it common among "nerds" and "kids aiming to excel at their science fairs"
Würzburg, 2026	Bill Gates about expanded memory	"It's garbage! It's a kludge! … But we're going to do it."
Würzburg, 2026	Einstein, A., The World As I See It, Forum and Century, Vol. 84, 1931	"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."
Würzburg, 2026	Nock, A. J., Our Enemy, the State Tilly, C., War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, 1985	"The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime."
Würzburg, 2026	Tilly, C., War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, 1985	"To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket."
Würzburg, 2026	Tilly, C., War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, 1985	"War made the state, and the state made war."
Würzburg, 2026	Tilly, C., War Making and State Making as Organized Crime, 1985	"States are rackets with the advantage of legitimacy."
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	The reason why I use Androis is because Adam and Eve had an apple, and messed everything up.
Würzburg, 2026	about Ken Thompson	Ken Thompson built Unix in 4 weeks with no manuals. Meanwhile most developers spend months on tools nobody uses.
Würzburg, 2026	about Ken Thompson	He had this philosophy: Do one thing well. Chain small tools together. Let each piece breathe.
Würzburg, 2026	about Ken Thompson	Here's what Thompson understood that most builders miss: - Simple tools are easier to debug - Simple tools are easier to combine - Simple tools survive because they don't break
Würzburg, 2026	about Ken Thompson	He once said he'd rather have 100 small programs than one massive one. The guy who literally built the foundation of modern computing chose tiny over bloated.
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	Every time I want to add a feature, I ask one question: Does this solve one problem really well? Or does it solve five problems poorly? If it's the second one, I cut it.
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	Your users don't want 47 options. They want one thing that works every time they click it.
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	pessimist - a former optimist with real world experience
Würzburg, 2026	Böhm, A. M.	C — spare, sharp, and unforgiving: It exposed memory. It trusted programmers. It assumed competence.
Würzburg, 2026	Wolfe, C., Little Brother is Watching You: The Menace of Corporate America, 1999	"...perhaps because you’re not the customer any more. You’re simply a "resource" to be managed for profit."
Würzburg, 2026	Wolfe, C., Would You Move to the State of the Free?, 2001	"The one thing freedom lovers need is real community. Not just the community of Web yakking. Not just the community of common ideas and ideals. But a web of institutions that serve freedom's goals."
Würzburg, 2026	Banton, David A.: Interview mit Robert Anton Wilson, Los Angeles, 23.04.1988, KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, California.	"Well, 23 is a part of the cosmic code. It’s connected with so many synchronicities and weird coincidences that it must mean something, I just haven’t figured out yet what it means!"
Würzburg, 2026	Wallis, J., Cosmic Trickster: An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson, Electric Shock Treatment, Issue 1, Summer 1991, Interview 27.02.1991	"I'm some kind of antibody in the New Age movement. My function is to raise the possibility, 'Hey, you know, some of this stuff might be bullshit.'"
Würzburg, 2026	Larman, C., Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, 3rd ed., Pearson, 2004	"The critical design tool for software development is a mind well educated in design principles. It is not UML or any other technology."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A.	"When I asked Muhammad Ali how many sit-ups he does a day. He didn’t know, because he said, 'I only count once they start hurting.'"
Würzburg, 2026	Hardin, G., The Tragedy of the Commons. In: Science. Band 162, Nr. 3859, 13. Dezember 1968, ISSN 0036-8075, p. 1243–1248	"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all"
Würzburg, 2026	unknown	PEBKAC/PEBCAK/PICNIC Phrases used by the tech savvy to mean that a problem is caused entirely by the fault of the user. PEBKAC: problem exists between keyboard and chair PEBCAK: problem exists between chair and keyboard POBCAK: problem occurs between chair and keyboard PICNIC: problem in chair not in computer EBKAC: Error between keyboard and chair PEBUAK: Problem Exists Between User and Keyboard
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"No finish lines, your routine is for life."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"Motivation might get you started. But routine is what changes your life."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"You don’t win by being perfect. You win by being consistent."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"I do promise that if you build a routine, and you show up [for training] even when you don’t want to, and you accept that your finish journey has no ending, you will win."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"I don’t promise magic. I don’t promise it will be fast. I don’t promise it will be easy."
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"First: You show up [for training] even when you don’t want to. Especially when you don’t want to. Those days matter more than the easy ones. Second: This does not end. There is no finish line. There is no 'I’m done now.'"
Würzburg, 2026	Schwarzenegger, A., Monday Motivation 12/22/25	"Motivation is short-term fuel. Routine is the only fuel that lasts."
Würzburg, 2026	Dyson, F., Progress In Religion, 15.03.2000	"Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive."
Würzburg, 2026	Albrecht, B., 1972, DYMAX	"My Computer Likes Me When I Speak BASIC."
Würzburg, 2026	People's Computer Company, 1975	"What to Do After You Hit Return?"
Würzburg, 2026	People's Computer Company Newsletter, Issue 1, 1972	"Computers are mostly used against people instead of for people; used to control people instead of to free them; Time to change all that - we need a... Peoples Computer Company."
Würzburg, 2026	Allison, D., PCC newspaper, Issue 1, 1975	"Let us stand on each others' shoulders; not each others' toes."
Würzburg, 2025	Böhm, A. M.	"Alexa, How Can I reason with Prolog?"
Würzburg, 2025	MacKenzie, D., Computer-related accidental death: an empirical exploration. In: Science and Public Policy. 21(4), August 1994, p. 233–248	Titanic-Effect: "There is a danger of what several contributors to Software Engineering Notes have called the ‘Titanic effect’: the safer a system is believed to be, the more catastrophic the accidents to which it is subject."
Würzburg, 2025	Golowanow, J. K.	"Secrecy was necessary so that no one would overtake us. But later, when they did overtake us, we had to maintain secrecy so that no one knew that we had been overtaken."
Würzburg, 2025	Dundes, A.	"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
Würzburg, 2025	Higgins in Magnum, 2x21 ("The Elmo Ziller Story")	"Coexistence in even remotely the same environs with Elmo is aesthetically corrupting and intellectually life-threatening."
Würzburg, 2025	Sutherlad, J.	"It is better for the developers to be surfing than writing code that won't be needed"
Würzburg, 2025	Patzke, H.	"Identical inputs may produce different results" - sums up human beings nicely.
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Without engineers science is just philosophy.
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Not built - Not done
Würzburg, 2025	O’Briain, D.	"Well, Science knows that it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop."
Würzburg, 2025	States of Matter, David L. Goodstein, Dover Publications, New York, 1975, p. 1	"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, dies in 1906, by his own hand. Pauls Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	"I am still confused, but at a higher level"
Würzburg, 2025	Kennedy, J. F.	"Change is the law of life."
Würzburg, 2025	Patzke, H.	"It's not smart to be dependant on someone else's computer for crucial functions in your own home."
Würzburg, 2025	Böhm, A. M.	Digital Workplace - where the heck is that?
Würzburg, 2025	Moody, E., 24.06.1982	"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
Würzburg, 2025	Drucker, P.	keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer
Würzburg, 2025	Drucker, P.	culture eats strategy for breakfast
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	cleanliness is next to godliness
Würzburg, 2025	Rogers, W.	"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
Würzburg, 2025	Dannenberg, V.	"There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves."
Würzburg, 2025	Ferris Bueller's Day off	"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Würzburg, 2025	Ferris Bueller's Day off	"I asked for a car, I got a computer...."
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Don't follow me, I do stupid things.
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Landings are like farts - if you have to force it, it is probably crap.
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Learn the difference between being patient and wasting your time.
Würzburg, 2025	Bruce Schneier on the Heartbleed-Bug	"Catastrophic is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11."
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	I know, you love it slow - I have seen your Chessna.
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"There’s no such thing as nothing."
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"Less is more!"
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it’s not all right not to try."
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"An ounce of behavior is worth more than a pound of words."
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning."
Würzburg, 2025	Meisner, S.	"May I say as the world’s oldest living teacher, 'Fuck Polite!'"
Würzburg, 2025	Veronica in the "The Fly" (1986)	"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
Würzburg, 2025	Peter Silbermann, in the film 'Terminator'	"I could make a career out of this guy!"
Würzburg, 2025	unbekannt	I understand just 'train station'.
Würzburg, 2025	de Saint-Exupéry, A.	"To see clearly, it’s often enough to simply change your perspective."
Würzburg, 2025	Bridges Business Consultancy	"A Bridges Business Consultancy survey revealed only 10% of organizations achieve at least two-thirds of their strategic objectives and only 2% of leaders are confident that they’ll achieve 80-100% of their strategic objective"
Würzburg, 2025	HBR	"61% of executives feel they are not prepared for the strategic challenges they face upon being appointed to senior leadership roles."
Würzburg, 2025	Economist	"40% say their company is good/excellent at feeding lessons from successful strategy implementation into formulation."
Würzburg, 2025	Bridges Business Consultancy	"80% of leaders feel their company is good at crafting strategy but only 44% feel they are good at implementation."
Würzburg, 2025	Bridges Business Consultancy	"Only 2% of leaders are confident that they will achieve 80–100% of their strategic objectives."
Würzburg, 2025	Neistat, C.	"What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate."
Würzburg, 2025	Potts, R.	"If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting."
Würzburg, 2025	Catmull, E.	"Failure isn’t a necessary evil. In fact, it isn’t evil at all. It is a necessary consequence of doing something new."
Würzburg, 2025	unknown	Dear Employers, can you please stop asking for a Masters degree and 10 years experience if you are paying $15 per hour? Sincerely, Everyone
Würzburg, 2024	Böhm, A. M.	"And yet another phone call that would have been better as an email."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Würzburg, 2024	Regression to the Mean	When something performs exceptionally well or poorly, it tends to return to normal over time.
Würzburg, 2024	Newton's First Law	An object at rest remains at rest as long as no external force acts upon it.
Würzburg, 2024	Pareto-Princple	80% of the results come from 20% of the effort you put in.
Würzburg, 2024	Two-Factor-Theory	Motivation at work isn't just about money; it's also about recognition and responsibility.
Würzburg, 2024	Hanlons's Law	Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Würzburg, 2024	Böhm, A. M.	"I am just doing some educated guessing."
Würzburg, 2024	Böhm, A. M.	That wasn't very data-driven of you.
Würzburg, 2024	Cheney, D., cited by: Kenneth Turan: ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ Examines Torture by U.S. in: NPR vom 18. Januar 2008	"We have to work sort of the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows, in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies."
Würzburg, 2024	Warhol, A.	"Art is business "
Würzburg, 2024	Warhol photo exhibition, Stockholm, 1968: Kaplan, Justin (Eds.), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 16. Ausgabe, 1992 (Little, Brown & Co.), p. 758:17	"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
Würzburg, 2024	Bernays, E. L., Crystallizing Public Opinion. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923, ch. 1, "The Scope of the Public Relations Counsel", especially pp. 11	"A new phrase has come into the language—counsel on public relations."
Würzburg, 2024	Bernays, E. L., Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of a Public Relations Counsel, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1965, S. 168.	"There was one basic lesson I learned in the CPI – that efforts comparable to those applied by the CPI to affect the attitudes of the enemy, of neutrals, and people of this country could be applied with equal facility to peacetime pursuits. In other words, what could be done for a nation at war could be done for organizations and people in a nation at peace."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	About LOC Don’t use LOC (Lines of Code) as a metric for code maintainability. Short code isn’t more readable. Code is not how you tell the computer what to do; it is how you tell another programmer what you want the computer to do. In short: write code for other people to read. Easy-to-understand code is easy-to-maintain code. Any practice taken to the extreme can be harmful.
Würzburg, 2024	Schmeling, M.	"I have seen something."
Würzburg, 2024	Bruce Lee	"Using no way as way – having no limitation as limitation."
Würzburg, 2024	Osho: From Bondage To Freedom	"Democracy is not the highest goal. It is better than dictatorial regimes, it is better than monarchies, but it is not the end of the journey – because democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people, but the people are retarded. So let us say: government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded. Democracy cannot be the highest possibility man can attain. It is good in comparison to other forms of government that have preceded it, but not something that can succeed it. I call that meritocracy. I want a government by the people of merit. And merit is a very rare quality."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	Cloud Storage - making personal files available for content-scanning since 2006.
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	Cloud Storage - making private data available for content-scanning since 2006.
Würzburg, 2024	Lynn, M., "The EU is running out of other people's money", The Telegraph, 2 September 2023.	"The EU has been coasting on ‘other people's money’ for decades. But as spending rises, and as it attempts to further expand its power and influence, Brussels is beginning to run out."
Würzburg, 2024	Thatcher, M., Interview in Thames TV "This Week" 02/05/1976.	"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	"Never spend six minutes doing something by hand, when you can spend six hours failing to automate it."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"
Würzburg, 2024	Monty Python	"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Würzburg, 2024	Monty Python	"And now for something completely different."
Würzburg, 2024	smf in cbm-hackers mailing list	"But that doesn't prove anything, we could argue that any bug listed in a bug tracker is not a bug because it's documented."
Würzburg, 2024	Patterson, R.	"Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This bird has no label that says ‘duck’. But the bird certainly looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he’s wearing a label or not."
Würzburg, 2024	Duck test, inspired by the poem by James Whitcomb Riley.	"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
Würzburg, 2024	Kahlil Gibran	Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
Würzburg, 2024	Gil, Thomer M.	"Emacs is a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though."
Würzburg, 2024	Richard Stallman	"Emacs started out as a text editor, which became a way of life for many users because they could do all their work on a computer while never exiting from Emacs, and ultimately it became a religion as well."
Würzburg, 2024	Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt	"You should always keep one principle in mind: Emacs does many things well, but it isn’t important for that reason. Emacs is important, because of the integration of different things you need to do."
Würzburg, 2024	Wall, Larry, Linux World, 1999	"The very fact that it’s possible to write messy programs in Perl is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to enforce cleanliness"
Würzburg, 2024	Wall, Larry	"we often joke that a camel is a horse designed by a committee, but if you think about it, the camel is pretty well adapted for life in the desert. The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl."
Würzburg, 2024	Wall, Larry	"Only perl can parse Perl."
Würzburg, 2024	unknown	Perl: the Swiss Army Chainsaw of Programming Languages.
Würzburg, 2024	Bostic, Keith	"Perl is the only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption."
Würzburg, 2024	concerning source code quality	Write once, never read again
Würzburg, 2024	concerning scientific papers	Write once, never understand again
Würzburg, 2024	Perl-Motto TIMTOWTDI or TMTOWTDI	"There is more than one way to do it"
Würzburg, 2024	programming - logical units	"Do one thing and do it well"
Würzburg, 2024	Bruce Schneier about Heartbleed-Bug of OpenSSL	"Catastrophic is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11."
Würzburg, 2023	Musk, Elon	"Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did."
Würzburg, 2023	unknown	software sells hardware
Würzburg, 2023	Martin Richards, BCPL-The language and its compiler	"The philosophy of BCPL is not one of the tyrant who thinks he knows best and lays down the law on what is and what is not allowed; rather, BCPL acts more as a servant offering his services to the best of his ability without complaint, even when confronted with apparent nonsense. The programmer is always assumed to know what he is doing and is not hemmed in by petty restrictions."
Würzburg, 2023	from the Film Predator	"If it bleeds – we can kill it."
Würzburg, 2023	Waalkes, Otto	"And out of the chaos a voice spoke to me: Smile and be happy, it could get worse. And I smiled was was happy - and it came worse."
Würzburg, 2023	Waalkes, Otto	If graffiti changed anything, it would be illegal.
Würzburg, 2023	unknown	Consumption of air can be a sign of life - or a warning sign for imminent death. it depends...
Würzburg, 2023	David E. Fisher: A Summer Bright and Terrible. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005, S. 164–168.	"It was the same with all specialists; they exaggerate the importance of whatever they are working on."
Würzburg, 2023	Kilpatrick, W.H.	"learning by doing"
Würzburg, 2023	Ellie Arroway in the Film Contact	"So if it’s just us … seems like an awful waste of space."
Würzburg, 2023	Wang, Yubo et al.	"Conclusions: This systematic review and meta-analysis provide evidence that compared to other dietary strategies, using LCHF with CT cannot induce greater benefits for lean mass, body fat percentage, body mass, VO2max, and aerobic performance in trained participants." Reference
Würzburg, 2023	George Orwell	"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	"Center of extreme competence"
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	"Extreme competence centering"
Würzburg, 2023	unknown	Notice: If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth reading.
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	sli: short loud and important
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	sli: small loud and important
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	"that's healthy -> kills not immediately"
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	... for the logically impaired
Würzburg, 2023	Musk, E.	"All Our Patent [sic!] Are Belong To You"
Würzburg, 2023	Hearst, W. R.	"You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war."
Würzburg, 2023	Böhm, A. M.	"When all you learned is economics, ..."
Würzburg, 2023	unknown	CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click attachments unless you know the content is safe. CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click links unless you know the content is safe. CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click images unless you know the content is safe.
Würzburg, 2023	Ellen H. Swallow Richards: Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment: A Plea for Better Conditions As a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency. 2nd Edition. Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston 1912	"Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously working through common interests, will be brought about the creation of right conditions, the control of the environment."
Würzburg, 2023	Louis Pasteur, cited by Ellen H. Swallow Richards: Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment : A Plea for Better Conditions As a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency. 2nd Auflage. Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston 1912	"It is within the power of every living man to rid himself of every parasitic disease."
Würzburg, 2023	unknown	practice makes perfect
Würzburg, 2022	Goldin, D.	"faster, better, cheaper"
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	time is always now
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Ignorance + Religion = Terrorism Ignorance + Power = Tyranny Ignorance + Freedom = Chaos Ignorance + Money = Corruption Ignorance + Poverty = Crime Ignorance is the root of all evil. Education is the key.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	I judge people based the hard disk space occupied by the text editor of their choice.
Würzburg, 2022	Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off	I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Don't piss off old people. The older they get, the less 'life in prison' is a deterrent.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Don't be difficult with old people, they spent a lifetime learning the skill.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Things you can say in response to literally anything, when you have nothing else to say As the prophecy foretold. But at what cost? So let it be written; so let it be done. So...it has come to this. That's just what he/she/they would've said. Is this why fate brought us together? And thus, I die. ...just like in my dream... Be that as it may, still may it be as it may be. There is no escape from destiny. Wise words by wise men write wise deeds in wise pen. In this economy? ...and then the wolves came.
Würzburg, 2022	Musk, E., 2022	A social media platform's policies are good, if the most extreme 10% on the left and on the right are equally unhappy.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Always wear protective clothing and approved helmet when using the software. The software may contain small particles, so keep it out of reach of children under age of five. The author doesn't assume any responsibility for mental and social problems the software may cause.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Welcome to the Great Reinfection
Würzburg, 2022	Junghans, B.	1. learn the rules 2. master the rules 3. break the rules
Würzburg, 2022	Stroustrup, B.	"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."
Würzburg, 2022	Russell, B., The Triumph of Stupidity, 10.05.1933	"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	least publishable unit
Würzburg, 2022	Jobs, S., 2005	"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
Würzburg, 2022	Jobs, S., 1993	"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	I have an RNA joke, but it might get lost in translation.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	I have a microscopy joke, but it's out of focus.
Würzburg, 2022	Petersen, W.	"Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, has obviously never had to reboot a computer."
Würzburg, 2022	Lazarenn, Confessions and Lamentations	"That does seem to be the rule, doesn't it? Analyze the problem, choose whichever strategy makes least sense, and do it."
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad can it be?
Würzburg, 2022	Thiele, J.	"Our vision of the past is always much clearer than our vision of the future."
Würzburg, 2022	The BOFH	"Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to have kids to make his activity cost neutral."
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	You don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.
Würzburg, 2022	From the Tank Man on 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre	It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.
Würzburg, 2022	FidoNews, 39(9), 28.02.2022	What if dogs bring the ball back, because they think that you enjoy throwing it?
Würzburg, 2022	Frank Sinatra, cited by FidoGazette, 18(4), 28.02.2022	"If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors."
Würzburg, 2022	Carlin, G.	Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Würzburg, 2022	Harris, T., 1973	If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. When something is for free, you are the product.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	You are not paid according to how hard you work. You are paid according to how hard you are to replace.
Würzburg, 2022	Douglas Adams	"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Just as not everyone can be a physical doctor, not everyone should be an author.
Würzburg, 2022	unknown	Just as not everyone can be a physical doctor, not everyone should be a pilot.
Würzburg, 2021	rule	before you speak, do think: t = is it true? h = is it helpful? i = is it inspiring? n = is it necessary? k = is it kind?
Würzburg, 2021	Böhm, A. M.	spiritual tolerance overflow
Würzburg, 2021	Kirkman, J.	"Of course God is a woman. That's why the Bible is an entire book filled with men explaining what she said."
Würzburg, 2021	Bob Marley	"Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance."
Würzburg, 2021	unknown	By the way, there is no race, no religion, no nation, no skin color and no gender without a natural proportion of idiots.
Würzburg, 2021	unknown	It's so good to be me!
Würzburg, 2021	Schwarzenegger, A.	"That devides one from being a champion or one not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through - forget it." Reference
Würzburg, 2021	Schwarzenegger, A.	"And that's what most people lack is in having the guts. The guts to go in and just say 'I go through and I don't care what happens. I know it aches.'" Reference
Würzburg, 2021	Bell Helicopters	"We train the best to be better."
Würzburg, 2021	Brian W. Kernighan	"Don’t comment bad code - rewrite it."
Würzburg, 2021	George Orwell	"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
Würzburg, 2021	George Orwell	"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed."
Würzburg, 2021	Amara, R.	Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run"
Würzburg, 2021	Böhm, A. M.	EoP - the Exam-only-Paper will be read only once - by the reviewers
Würzburg, 2021	Idi Amin	"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."
Würzburg, 2021	Böhm, A. M.	a Shitfix
Würzburg, 2021	Douglas Adams, "THGTTG"	"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Würzburg, 2021	Heitsch, G., cbm-hackers@musoftware.de	"Well, it's a semiconductor, so semi-functional is to be expected. ;)"
Würzburg, 2021	Fido-Net, Mailfooter	/dev/screwdriver
Würzburg, 2020	Stein, G.	"Affectations can be dangerous."
Würzburg, 2020	perlobj (source, CPAN)	"Multiple inheritance often indicates a design problem, but Perl always gives you enough rope to hang yourself with if you ask for it." reference
Würzburg, 2020	New York Times Co. v. United States, United States Supreme Court, No. 1873, 403 U, S. 713 (1971)	"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people [...]"
Würzburg, 2020	unknown	It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game.
Würzburg, 2020	Galbraith, J. K.	An old Windows has old security holes. A new Windows has new security holes. Another OS has other security holes. For safety you must care yourself.
Würzburg, 2020	Galbraith, J. K.	"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
Würzburg, 2020	Hauenstein, K.	"When they stop pirating your music, you know you're dead."
Würzburg, 2020	Tape auf Atari from Kruder&Dorfmeister	"do not adjust your brain, there is a fault in reality."
Würzburg, 2020	deGrasse Tyson, N., FIDOGAZETTE Vol 14 No 26, September 09, 2020	"If I were ever abducted by aliens, the first thing I'd ask is whether they came from a planet where fellow aliens also deny science."
Würzburg, 2020	Böhm, A. M.	"Ey, you got the drip-drop"
Würzburg, 2020	Böhm, A. M.	"Seeing your lights"
Würzburg, 2020	Böhm, A. M.	"Disagree and commit"
Würzburg, 2020	Mark Twain	"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Starnberg, 1999	OSI-Modell	the 10 layers of th OSI-Model: 10. Religion layer 9. Politics layer 8. Administration layer 7. Application layer 6. Presentation layer 5. Session layer 4. Transport layer 3. Network layer 2. Data link layer 1. Physical layer
Würzburg, 2020	Dilbert to his boss Boss	"If challenges are more valuable than money, give me your money and you got my challenges."
Würzburg, 2020	Robert Hayes, July 12, 2019, How To Prevent Windows From Automatically Reducing System Volume reference	"Longtime Microsoft watchers know that what you really have to watch out for isn’t malevolent intention on the part of the Redmond-based software giant. If Microsoft tries to be evil, they usually just mess it up and don’t really do anything. No, it’s when Microsoft tries to HELP that you have to look out [...]."
Würzburg, 2020	Henry Ford	"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Würzburg, 2020	Hubbard, E., 1922	"Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized."
Würzburg, 2020	Hanlon's razor	Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Würzburg, 2020	unknown	"He who asks a question is a fool for a moment; He who doesn't ask is a fool forever."
Würzburg, 2020	Allen, J., Vantiq	"If you have a hammer, you can use the hammer to build a house, or you can use the hammer to kill somebody. It's a tool. And sometimes the way I think is, our platform is a tool to enable developing applications,"
Würzburg, 2020	George Takei, Twitter, 16.03.2020.	"BREAKING: Due to massive incompetence and inexplicable delay, WHO to rename Covid-19 to Covfefe-45."
Würzburg, 2020	Abraham Lincoln	"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
Würzburg, 2020	John Basil Barnhill, Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism, As It Appeared in the National Rip-Saw (Saint Louis, Mo.: The National Rip-Saw Pub. Co., 1914), 34.	"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty."
Würzburg, 2020	Ralph Paterson Tester, cited by: Donald Michie: Colossus and the Breaking of the Wartime "Fish" Codes. Cryptologia, 26:1, S. 22, 2002.	"You know, it's easy for me. Most things go downhill with age. Stamina for some reason goes the other way. So you're no good at this sort of thing until you're at least forty. Another coffee, anyone?"
Würzburg, 2019	James Dean	Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Würzburg, 2019	Unknown	Your Training is our/my warmup
Würzburg, 2019	Unknown	Your competition First round is our/my warmup
Würzburg, 2019	Unknown	Everything happens for a reason. That reason is usually physics
Würzburg, 2019	Steve Jobs	Your time is limited. so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Würzburg, 2019	Unknown	Social engineering specialist Because there is no patch for human stupidity
Würzburg, 2019	Unknown	I can explain it to you, But I can’t understand it for you
Würzburg, 2019	Wired Magazine	When information is cheap, context is more valuable than ever.
Würzburg, 2019	unknown	UNIX is user-friendly, it's just a little picky about who its friends are
Würzburg, 2019	Marcus Zahn, 27.12.2016, Monday Knowledge Snippet (MKS), 67 TM 9.4, Renewed Page Layouts, https://blogs.sap.com/	"New features are new features and the reason to upgrade."
Würzburg, 2019	William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, Hamish Hamilton, London,1947, p. ??	"For the Germans - with true Teutonic thoroughness - wrote everything down."
Würzburg, 2019	William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, Hamish Hamilton, London,1947, p. 307	"The idiots wrote everything down."
Würzburg, 2019	William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41	"I suppose every government that has ever gone to war has tried to convince its people of three things: (1) that right is on its side; (2) that it is fighting purely in defence of the nation; (3) that it is sure to win."
Würzburg, 2019	Roosevelt, E, cited by: William L. Shirer, William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return	"Please for the sake of the future, nail every Communist"
Würzburg, 2019	Eric Idle	"You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!"
Würzburg, 2019	Jungkunz, B.	"Smoothie - vegane corpse water"
Würzburg, 2019	Null, C. cited by Barrett, B., How a 'Null' License Plate Landed a Hacker in Ticket Hell, Wired Magazine, 13.08.2019	"The ‘minimum viable product’ concept has pushed a lot of bad code through that doesn’t go through with the proper level of testing." reference
Würzburg, 2019	unknown	"No Backup - No Mercy"
Würzburg, 2019	Roberts, L.	"If you begin with shit, you'll finish with shit."
Würzburg, 2019	Böhm, A. M.	"Never let your children update the productive computer system you depend on."
Würzburg, 2019	Lauterbach, B., Sauer, S., Gottlieb, J., Sürie, C., Benz. U., Transportation Management with SAP, Rheinwerk Publishing, Boston, MA, p. 61	"[...] SAP did develop the language [ABAP] to be a best-fitting, reliable, and fast platform for business applications."
Würzburg, 2019	Arouet, F.-M., a.k.a. Voltaire	"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?"
Würzburg, 2019	Dossche, W., FidoNet	"When a discussion in an electronic forum with a US citizen grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the likelihood of becoming sidetracked to US Presidential elections, the 2nd Amendment or ‘We saved your asses in WW2’ increases exponentially."
Würzburg, 2019	Godwin, M., 1990	"As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a comparison of a person's being compared to Hitler or another Nazi reference, increases." (Godwin's Law a.k.a. Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)
Würzburg, 2019	Heinlein, R. A.	They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Würzburg, 2019	Twain, M., In Europe and Elsewhere, 1923, p. 175	"The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all."
Würzburg, 2019	Ocasio-Cortez, A.	"Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as staying quiet. In fact oftentimes the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table."
Würzburg, 2019	Einstein, A.	"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Freudenberg, 2019	Schmidt, E., cited by Tate, R., Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People, Gawker.com, 12.04.2009	"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."
Würzburg, 2019	Ebert, R., at rogerebert.com, 02/20/2008	"Life of Brian is so cheerfully inoffensive that, well, it’s almost blasphemous to take it seriously."
Würzburg, 2019	Jones, T, cited in Monty Python Speaks!, S. 247.	"The whole thing about 'The sandal' [...] is like a history of the Church in three minutes."
Würzburg, 2019	Jones, T, cited in Monty Python Speaks!, S. 247.	"[...] Christ [is] saying all of these wonderful things about people living together in peace and love, and then for the next two thousand years people are putting each other to death in His name because they can’t agree on how He said it, or in what order He said it."
Würzburg, 2019	Shilbrack, K., in: Hardcastle, G. L., Reischm G. A., (Ed.): Monty Python and Philosophy. Carus Publishing Company, 2006, p. 23	"One cannot rebel against the absurd, but one can laugh at it."
Würzburg, 2019	Shacklett, M., BYOD backpedaling: How to convince employees to give up personal devices, techrepublic.com, 03/05/2019	"Companies are discovering that BYOD causes more problems than solutions." reference
Würzburg, 2019	Boehm, A. M.	"Suicide by Cops" is a well known word. What about "Suicide by Novice Driver"?
Würzburg, 2019	Sheridan to Garibaldi, "The Geometry of Shadows"	"The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
Würzburg, 2019	Halfhill, T. R., Byte Senior Editor, Byte Jan 97	"To put it bluntly, it's negligent for software developers to ignore the possibility that their code may live for 10 or 20 years."
Würzburg, 2019	Thomas Paine	"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom."
Würzburg, 2019	Arthur Koestler	"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward."
Würzburg, 2019	Douglas Adams	"It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do so."
Würzburg, 2019	Madeleine L'Engle	"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Stuttgart, 2018	Logan, D., King, J., Fischer-Wright, H. Tribal Stages, signs of Stage 4:	"They tend to ask, 'what’s the next right thing to do?' Their language focuses on 'we,' not 'me.' If two people get in a squabble, a third will step in and repair the relationship:"
Würzburg, 2018	Vonnegut, K.	"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
Würzburg, 2018	unknown	FIRE - financial independence, retire early
Würzburg, 2018	unknown	No gunfight survivor has ever said that he wished he had less powerful ammunition or fewer shots available.
Würzburg, 2018	Moritz, M.	"The first rule of gunfighting is, have a gun."
Stuttgart, 2018	Lorenzo, R., Voigt, N., Schetelig, K., Zawadzski,A, Welpe, I, Brosi, P., The Mix that Matters Boston Consulting Group, 2017	Innovation is defined as: "percentage of revenue from new products or services in the most recent three-year period" reference
Stuttgart, 2018	Logan, D., King, J., Fischer-Wright, H.	Tribal Stages, signs of Stage 4: They tend to ask, "what’s the next right thing to do?" Their language focuses on "we," not "me." If two people get in a squabble, a third will step in and repair the relationship
Stuttgart, 2018	Sutherland, J.	Stories can always be broken down
Stuttgart, 2018	unknown	cst: common sense team
Stuttgart, 2018	unknown	team: Together Everybody Achieves More
Stuttgart, 2018	Böhm, A. M.	Don‘t manage the people, manage the system.
Stuttgart, 2018	Appelo, J.	Manage the system, not the people.
Würzburg, 2018	anonymous	I wonder how many strangers have taken photos with me in the background.
Würzburg, 2018	anonymous	If we were eyeless we'd be unaware of colour. What if we're missing some part of reality because we don't have the organ to detect it?
Würzburg, 2018	anonymous	Your age is just the number of laps you've done around a giant ball of fire in the centre of our solar system.
Würzburg, 2018	anonymous	Once you've read a dictionary, every other book you read is just a remix.
Würzburg, 2018	anonymous	The men in expensive suits look successful until you learn that they often work for people who dress in jeans and t-shirts.
Würzburg, 2018	Armstrong, J., the creator of Erlang	The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
Würzburg, 2018	Film Wargames, 1983	WOPR: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
Würzburg, 2018	saying	A clean home is wasted time
Würzburg, 2018	Trump, D., twitter, 14. Okt. 2012, 11:43	I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.
Würzburg, 2018	unknown	MIP - most important person
Würzburg, 2018	saying	"fail early, fail cheap." meant is really cheap, not inexpensive...
Würzburg, 2017	Böhm, A. M.	About the definition of "that's healthy": Does it heal? Does it cure? Does it prevent? Does it protect against illness and infirmity? Does it delay the exitus (that would be infirmity)? Or does it just not kill you (immediately)?
Würzburg, 2017	Watson-Watt, R., "cult of the imperfect"	"Give them the third-best to go on with; the second-best comes too late, [and] the best never comes."
Würzburg, 2017	unknown	sometimes done is better than perfect.
Würzburg, 2017	Brigstocke, M.	"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
Würzburg, 2017	Stroustrup, B.	"More good code has been written in languages denounced as bad than in languages proclaimed wonderful - much more."
Würzburg, 2017	unknown	You cannot control what you cannot measure
Würzburg, 2017	Denoncourt, D., Aging in IT and Being a Lifelong Learner, infoq.com	"Advice for younger teammates - remember you are only as good as your accomplishments over the last two years" reference
Würzburg, 2017	Beck, K.	"Make it work, make it right, make it fast."
Würzburg, 2017	Johnson, R.	"Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable."
Würzburg, 2017	Freeman, A.	"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency."
Würzburg, 2017	Fowler, M.	"When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed."
Würzburg, 2017	Beck, K.	"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment."
Würzburg, 2017	Maguire, S.	"Fix the cause, not the symptom."
Würzburg, 2017	House, C.	"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad."
Würzburg, 2017	de Saint-Exupery, A.	"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away."
Würzburg, 2017	Salomon, D.	"Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code."
Würzburg, 2017	Bacon, B.	"Knowledge is power."
Würzburg, 2017	Heilmann, C.	"Java is to JavaScript what car is to carpet."
Würzburg, 2017	Chanel, C.	"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different"
Würzburg, 2017	Wilde, O.	"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
Würzburg, 2017	Johnson, J.	"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."
Würzburg, 2017	Fowler, M.	"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
Würzburg, 2017	DeMarco, T. Why Does Software Cost So Much?, Dorset House, 1995	"There are two familiar variants of the documentation problem: a) you write all the internal documentation that you know you need and you pay a terrible price for it, or b) you don’t write all the internal documentation you need and you pay a terrible price for that."
Würzburg, 2017	Böhm, A.	sales-tuned head set with javascript support optimized for promises
Würzburg, 2017	Timothy Leary	Two Commandments for the Molecular Age: 1. "Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men." 2. "Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his or her own consciousness."
Würzburg, 2017	Roosevelt, E.	Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Würzburg, 2017	unknown	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.
Würzburg, 2017	Dr Leonard McCoy	"I'm a doctor, not a mechanic."
Würzburg, 2017	No. 7 of The Eight I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts of the Pastafari	"I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Go Around Telling People I Talk To You. You’re Not That Interesting. Get Over Yourself."
Würzburg, 2017	Reiser, M. cited by Wirth, N., 1995	"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
Würzburg, 2017	Cyril Northcote Parkinson cited by Wirth, N., 1995	"Software expands to fill the available memory."
Würzburg, 2017	Edward Bernays	"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits andopinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute aninvisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Würzburg, 2017	Margaret Thatcher	"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
Würzburg, 2017	Martin Fowler, 2008	Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Würzburg, 2017	Funk, K., Karrierekiller Tattoo?, computerwoche vom 01.01.2017	"Think before you ink."
Würzburg, 2016	William G. McAdoo	"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
Würzburg, 2016	Gilmore, J., Time Magazine, 1993	"The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it."
Würzburg, 2016	Gilmore, J., Computers, Freedom and Privacy, First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, March 28, 1991	"How many of you have broken no laws this month?"
Würzburg, 2016	Gilmore, J.	"We make free software affordable." slogan of Cygnus Solutions
Würzburg, 2016	Diane Francis, Hudson Institute Kleptocracy Initiative, Canada, Dec 13, 2016, LinkedIn	"When you run a welfare state, you cannot afford to open the floodgates."
Würzburg, 2016	Wirth, N.	Wirth’s Law "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
Würzburg, 2016	Wirth, N.	Wirth’s Law "Software expands to fill the available memory."
Würzburg, 2016	Hoare, C.A.R.	"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
Würzburg, 2016	Tesla, N.	"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
Würzburg, 2016	Hopper, G. B. M.	"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."
Würzburg, 2016	Hopper, G. B. M.	"If in doubt - do it."
Würzburg, 2016	Hopper, G. B. M.	"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We’ve always done it this way.'"
Würzburg, 2016	Hopper, G. B. M.	"It’s always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Würzburg, 2016	Hopper, G. B. M.	"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."
Würzburg, 2016	Jack Welch	"fix it, sell it or close it"
Würzburg, 2016	William A. Foster	Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Würzburg, 2016	Saying	A gentleman will walk but never run....
Würzburg, 2016	Martínez, A. G., interview by Grassegger, H, golem.de, 09/14/2016, 10:54	Make an impact! Go fast and break things! Done is better than perfect. Get in over your Head.
Würzburg, 2016	Mark Douglas	"Policy is policing."
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"May I say as the world’s oldest living teacher, 'Fuck Polite!'"
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning."
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"An ounce of behavior is worth more than a pound of words."
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try."
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"There's no such thing as nothing."
Würzburg, 2016	Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008	"Less is more!"
Würzburg, 2016	10 things you didn’t know about Europe’s tech scene, Mohout, O., venturebeat.com, September 4, 2016	The first thing to understand about the European tech scene is that there is no European tech scene.
Würzburg, 2016	mail footer	sent from a prehistoric stone tablet.
Würzburg, 2016	Kuok, R.	When I hire people, I look for great attitude. I don't look for MBA or PhD.
Würzburg, 2016	saying	start with "why?"
Würzburg, 2016	saying	danger - expectations ahead
Würzburg, 2016	saying	Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow.
Würzburg, 2016	saying	You must spend money to make money.
Würzburg, 2016	found somewhere	Grind: get ready it’s a new day
Würzburg, 2016	found somewhere	Fact of life: after Monday and Tuesday even the calendars say: W T F
Würzburg, 2016	found somewhere	Some of you are only conscious online
Würzburg, 2016	Parkinson's Law	"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Würzburg, 2016	Parkinson's Law	"The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
Würzburg, 2016	unknown	On a clear disk you can seek forever.
Würzburg, 2016	Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir"	"Questions are the Beginning of Wisdom."
Würzburg, 2016	William H. McRaven	"repetition, surprise, security, speed, simplicity, and purpose" key principles of vize admiral William H. McRaven
Würzburg, 2015	Murrow. E. R.	"There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live."
Würzburg, 2015	unknown	Some things have to be seen to be believed. Most things have to be believed to be seen.
Würzburg, 2015	Kinks, 1966	"People take pictures of each other, ...just to prove that they really existed"
Würzburg, 2015	Footer in posting at Gun Digest Store (e-gundigest.com)	Don't Forget: After self-defense you need legal defense.
Würzburg, 2015	Fido-Net, Mailfooter	To err is Human. To blame someone else is politics.
Würzburg, 2015	Arthur T. Harris	"The only thing the Arab understands is the heavy hand" Arthur Travers Harris cited by James S. Corum, Wray R. Johnson: Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists (Modern War Studies), p. 65, University Press of Kansas, 2003
Würzburg, 2015	Bockshorn Vorschau November, 09+10/2015	An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Würzburg, 2015	Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Credo, 1991	The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Würzburg, 2015	The Big Bang Theorie, season 3, episode 23	Sheldon: Interesting. My mother and I have the same agreement about church. Amy: I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance.
Würzburg, 2015	Derek Bok	"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Würzburg, 2015	John Perry cited by: Doherty, B., The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body – and his politics, Reason, August/September 2004	"We all get older and smarter."
Würzburg, 2015	Kantor, B.	"A medium apple... weighs 182 grams, yields 95 kcal, and contains no caffeine, thus making it unsuitable for sysadmins."
Würzburg, 2015	Spolsky, J.	"For some reason most people seem to be born without the part of the brain that understands pointers."
Würzburg, 2015	Spolsky, J.	"Remember, smart does not mean 'knows the answer[s] to trivia questions.'"
Würzburg, 2015	Spolsky, J.	"People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical. [...] These kind of people can be identified because they love to point out the theoretical similarity between two widely divergent concepts."
Würzburg, 2014	wattie in F64	"I wanted to make this world better, but god denied to give me the sources..."
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	Cobol: Completely Obsolete Business Orientated Language.
Würzburg, 2014	From the W3 XML page	Q: When do I need xml ? A: When I need a new buzz word for my resume.
Würzburg, 2014	phluid	"I won't program in java anymore. I'm not Marxist and don't believe in classes."
Würzburg, 2014	unknown (Alanna?)	"Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSs is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders."
Würzburg, 2014	Ribbens, J.	PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Würzburg, 2014	Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 15, 2001	If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Würzburg, 2014	H. L. Mencken	For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	Mess with with the best or die with the rest
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	BER: Beyond Economical Repair
Würzburg, 2014	George S. Patton cited by Schmitz, H., Raus aus der Demotivationsfalle, Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005	"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
Würzburg, 2014	George S. Patton	"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
Würzburg, 2014	John Wayne	"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday."
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	If you want to find a path with no obstacles, it probably won't lead you anywhere.
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	the number you have dialed has never been available.
Seeshaupt, 2014	unknown	Java: write once, debug anywhere
Würzburg, 2014	unknown	"Success Trains. Failure Complains."
Würzburg, 2014	Lennon, J.	"Life is what happens to you, while you’re busy making other plans"
Würzburg, 2014	Fido, 30.08.2014	Bugs come in through open Windows.
Würzburg, 2014	Ruskin, J.	"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."
Würzburg, 2014	Robert Baden-Powell	"Try and leave this world a little better than you found it"
Würzburg, 2014	Zac Gery, Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things	John Wooden stated, "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."
Würzburg, 2014	Zac Gery, Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things	Oscar Levant once said, "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
Würzburg, 2013	Ernst Stuhlinger	"The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard."
Würzburg, 2013	Tom Hanks, cited by Hoaxers vs. Rocket Scientists: Even NASA unsure how to counter claims of faked moon landings, Associated Press, 21.12,2002	"We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity ..."
Würzburg, 2013	Niels Bohr	"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
Würzburg, 2013	Mark Twain	"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
Würzburg, 2013	Franklin D. Roosevelt	"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
Würzburg, 2013	Albert Einstein	"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Würzburg, 2013	Helen Keller	"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Würzburg, 2013	Kathy Jackson	"Why do you carry a gun?" "I carry a gun because I can't carry a policeman."
Würzburg, 2013	Schwarzenegger, 1990	"95% of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave"
Würzburg, 2013	Miller's Law	"You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it."
Würzburg, 2013	Damian Conway	"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
Würzburg, 2013	Peter M. Senge	"Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space."
Würzburg, 2013	Hofmann, P., City of Munich, cited by Nick Heath, How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city, techrepublic.com, 20.11.2013	"Windows has developed from a pure PC-centred operating system, like Windows 3.11 was, to a whole infrastructure. If you're staying with Microsoft you're getting more and more overwhelmed to update and change your whole IT infrastructure [to fit with Microsoft]"
Würzburg, 2013	Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013	"The internet is 'a giant machine designed to give people what they want.'"
Würzburg, 2013	Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013	"We often think of the internet enables you to do new things," Williams said. "But people just want to do the same things they’ve always done."
Würzburg, 2013	Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013	"The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience. Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease."
Würzburg, 2013	Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013	"If you study what the really big things on the internet are, you realize they are masters at making things fast and not making people think."
Würzburg, 2013	Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013	"In other words, people don’t want to wait, and they don’t want to think — and the internet should respond to that."
Würzburg, 2013	Found somewhere	Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Würzburg, 2013	Albert Einstein	"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Würzburg, 2013	Dr. Seuss	"Adults are obsolete children."
Würzburg, 2013	Shana Alexander	"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Würzburg, 2013	Albert Einstein	"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
Würzburg, 2013	Maya Angelou	"Nothing will work unless you do."
Würzburg, 2013	pixadel	"Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like."
Würzburg, 2013	Thomas A. Edison	"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Würzburg, 2013	Mailfooter	No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Würzburg, 2013	Aldous Huxley	"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
Würzburg, 2013	Albert Einstein	"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Würzburg, 2013	Altshuler, M.	"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot."
Würzburg, 2012	Mailfooter	One OS to rule them all One OS to find them One OS to bring them all And in the Darkness bind them.
Würzburg, 2012	african lore, cited by von Hirschhausen, E., Wohin geht die Liebe, wenn sie durch den Magen durch ist?, rororo, 2012, appendix p. 5	"It takes a whole village to raise a child."
Würzburg, 2012	von Hirschhausen, E., Wohin geht die Liebe, wenn sie durch den Magen durch ist?, rororo, 2012, P. 298	"If it isn't broken, don't fix it!"
Würzburg, 2012	unknown	"I don't need light, I'm enlighted."
Würzburg, 2012	Published Studies	Questioning and challenging of scientific results: How old were the authors at the time of the study? What expertise did the authors have at the time in the field in question? What's the sample size? How was the sample composed? Who financed the study? Is the study published? Where is the study published? Who reviewed the study? Could the results be reproduced by at least one other team of scientists? What did each author of the study want to achieve (for his own)? Whom did the results have to please?
Würzburg, 2012	Carlos Hathcock, cited by C. W. Henderson, Marine Sniper, Berkley Caliber, 2005, p. 10	"They just flop around a lot when you shoot 'em in the head."
Würzburg, 2012	Ken Schwaber, 04.07.2012, scrumDay, St. Leon-Rot	One key point of lean is bottom-up intelligence.
Würzburg, 2012	Ken Schwaber, 04.07.2012, scrumDay, St. Leon-Rot	You cannot measure a creative process but by the results.
Würzburg, 2012	unknown	When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This fact implicates: As long as your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Würzburg, 2012	Schwaber, K., Beedle, M., Agile Software Development with Scrum, Pearson Studium, International Edition, 2008, p. 31	"Learn first, then make changes."
Würzburg, 2012	Lore	The easy way out usually leads back in.
Würzburg, 2011	Rule #62 from: "100 Rules for NASA Project Managers"	Not using modern techniques, like computer systems, is a great mistake, but forgetting that the computer simulates thinking is a still greater mistake.
Würzburg, 2011	While Reading the book "Persönlichkeiten statt Tyrannen", M Winterhoff, I. Thielen	"Banana-Children: The children mature at the employer's site."
Würzburg, 2011	Anonymous	A clean bench is a sign of a weak mind.
Würzburg, 2011	Definition of a SISO by A. M. Böhm	SISO: shit in - shit out
Würzburg, 2011	Mailfooter in the Fido Net	File not found, loading something similar...
Würzburg, 2011	Dean Rusk as cited by G. Kemp, Arms Sales and Arms Control in the Developing Countries, The World Today, 22 (9), 1966, p. 386-395	"I recall that at the United Nations General Assembly, at a time when all members were voting unanimously for disarmament, 70 members were at that moment asking us [the United States] for military assistance."
Würzburg, 2011	Thoughts about the principles and philosophy of the Web 2.0	The customer has to do all the work. But what about the customer focus and the customer service mindset?
Würzburg, 2011	Truth	"The cool and hard guys can be visited at the cemetery."
Würzburg, 2011	Thoughts about the quality of state-of-the-art software	"Click and cry..."
Würzburg, 2011	Java Jokes 1/2011	a) Integer iHnzlGrmpfl = Integer.valueOf(14); b) Integer iHnzlGrmpfl = new Integer(126); c) Boolean blnHnzlGrmpfl = Boolean.valueOf(false); d) Boolean blnHnzlGrmpfl = new Boolean(true);
Würzburg, 2010	Software refactoring done by tinkers	"When the If becomes a While..."
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." Edsger W. Dijkstra
Würzburg, 2010	Discussion about NAS, SSD and other storage techniques	"TAS: tube attached storage, also called restroom."
Würzburg, 2010	B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34	[...] if you think, getting from as-is to to-be is a simple matter of swapping out old technologies, think again.
Würzburg, 2010	B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34	"Usually, in 10 years of experience, people have been sucked into enough hype cycles that they get a little jaded. They are no longer going to believe that Technology X is going to save the world." J. Davies, cited by B. Rhubart,
Würzburg, 2010	B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34	"You need to have a healthy skepticism of the technologies your're looking at, but you need to be open to new ideas. " J. Davies, cited by B. Rhubart,
Würzburg, 2010	Col. Robert Lindsey, cited by M. Ayoob, about the relationship between course instructor and the students	"We are not God's thift to our students. Our students are God's thift to us."
Würzburg, 2010	Jeff Cooper, cited by M. Ayoob, about the quality of free-lancing course instructor	"There are a great many people teaching things they haven't learned yet."
Würzburg, 2010	A. Schwarzenegger in an interview with U.S. News, 1990	"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	First-rate programmers want to hang around with first-rate programmers. Second-rate programmers want to hang around with third-rate programmers.
Würzburg, 2010	Thomas Jefferson	"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Würzburg, 2010	Unknown	When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? (Clifford Stoll)
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	"Better train people and risk they leave, than do nothing and risk they stay." (Anonymous)
Würzburg, 2010	Why normal objects are now called "pojo" by the Java-Kiddies...	"We [M. Fowler, R. Parsons, J. MacKenzie] wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked a fancy name. So we gave them one, and it's caught on very nicely." Hint: Let you explain the term "Pojo" by a Java-Kiddy or a Java-Addict. The result is more revieling than the just cited explanation of the need for the "fancy name".
Würzburg, 2010	Mailfooter	With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. Dennis Ritchie
Würzburg, 2010	Edsger Dijkstra	"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
Würzburg, 2010	Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian, 1929	"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear."
Würzburg, 2009	San Jose Mercury News Ad., 2000	Your phone is wireless Your office is virtual Your social life is non-existing
Würzburg, 2009	Fidonet	File sharing is not theft. It has never been theft. Anyone who says it is theft is wrong and has unthinkingly absorbed too many Recording Industry Association of America press releases. Adam Livingstone, BBC Newsnight
Würzburg, 2009	Fidonet	In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself. Mohandas K. Gandhi
Würzburg, 2009	Fidonet	I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
Würzburg, 2009	Fidonet	A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. Lao Tzu
Würzburg, 2009	Fidonet	Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan (1882-1958)
Würzburg, 2009	Ego-Bingo, eine variant of the well-known "Bullshit-Bingo" for teams and team-oriented working environments	Before starting the game, before the meeting, briefing or conference, each player chooses a number greater than five and attends the event. The words "I", "Mine" and there singular derivates are counted. Only the words said by the attending exutive staff in person are counted, that are used in conjunction with "to need", "to require", "to want", "to feel", "to have to" "must" and "may" and their synonyms, respectivly. The one, who reaches his chosen number shouts "Bingo". The last shouter during the meeting wins. This can be used to quantify the teaming-focus, when the mean of the winning numbers is build over a longer time. The larger that number is, the lesser the organisation is really team-oriented, but the more egocentric the executive staff is.
Würzburg, 2009	Husband of Janis Kracht, cited by herself, in: FidoGazette, June 2009	"Leave the smallest electronic footprints you can."
Würzburg, 2008	Fidonet	WWW = "World Wide Waiting"
Würzburg, 2008	US advertising film from the 1950s	"Challenge makes an engineer."
Würzburg, 2008	unknown	Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: * If it moves, tax it. * If it keeps moving, regulate it. * If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Würzburg, 2008	Helmut L. Clemm	"Hitech is Lowtech plus Software."
Würzburg, 2008	Bill Gates, cited by Helmut L. Clemm	"Banking is necessary, banks are not. Banking is software."
Würzburg, 2007	unknown	"ERROR 406: file corrupt: config.earth -- reboot universe? (Y/N)"
Würzburg, 2006	Swearingen, E.	"The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom."
Würzburg, 2006	Shaw, G. B.	"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Würzburg, 2006	G.M. Trevelyan	Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Würzburg, 2005	Fido-Net	Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: "Nobody notices when things go right."
Hamburg, 2005	Israely saying	Don't be right, be clever.
Würzburg, 2005	unknown	It's not important what you are capable of, but it counts how you name it.
Würzburg, 2004	Bertrand Russell	"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
Würzburg, 2004	Bertrand Russell	There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Würzburg, 2004	RVZ, a saying seen in the lab	Fast methods, fast results, fast richtig.
Würzburg, 2004	FGC	Please wait while system is crashing.
Würzburg, 2004	Anonymous	I have to disagree with the notion that we learn something new every day. I think I've had several days in a row where I haven't learned anything and even forgotten some things.
Würzburg, 2004	Tour	often immitated, never duplicated
Würzburg, 2003	Tour	"Publish or perish" is well known, but what about "Profit or perish"?
Florida, 2003	Vacation	"Failure is not an option", from the film Apollo 13. A very good motto.
Florida, 2003	Vacation	"We don't have a procedure for this", from the film Apollo 13. You cannot explain the project management of the 1960s and the flexibility of the staff of that time more accurate.
Starnberg, 2001	Green, E. L., sci.crypt	Rubber-hose cryptanalysis "in which [means: in rubber-hose cryptanalysis] a rubber hose is applied forcefully and frequently to the soles of the feet until the key to the cryptosystem is discovered, a process that can take a surprisingly short time and is quite computationally inexpensive."
Starnberg, 2001	Office discussion	typical software message: "Please wait while we ignore you."
München, 2001	visit	A two-node cluster. Both nodes talk normally over their hearbeat connection. Once, one node says to the other one: "Let's go and boot!"
Starnberg, 1998	Funny contact with Java and its exceptions	The NullPointerException in Java: The best error message of a pointerless programming language...
Starnberg, 1998	Discussion about bad software	"Banana-Ware: The software matures at the customer's site."
Friedrichshafen, 1992	Lore	"Shit happens."
Friedrichshafen, 1988	Brian in The Life of Brian	"You don’t need to follow anybody. You’ve all got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals. [...] Don’t let anyone tell you what to do".
Friedrichshafen, 1980	C-3PO, Star Wars	"I suggest a new strategy, R2: Let the Wookiee win."

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