James Richard Cook (1944 – January 13, 2022) was an American author of light fantasy novels. His writing includes many computer jokes, and is best enjoyed by those who have a background in computers.
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It is a pity the universe doesn't use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!
He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0.
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.