Top 15 Rick Cook Quotes

What happened, get lost in the directory tree again?

As flat as an open can of coke, left on a programmer's desk over the weekend.

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

It's always the details that get you in trouble.

Never ask them for an explanation. You only end up worse confused.

It's how you get rid of cats. You get a 500-pound parakeet and teach it to say, "Here, kitty kitty kitty."

"We learned dwarves are not meant to fly." came a voice from the edge of the circle.

"What was that?" Jerry asked, peering over the edge. "I think it was a ninja dwarf." Wiz said wonderingly...

The law of similarity made any map a magical instrument.

Always secure your files, you never know who is lurking about.

"The question is, is that a bug or a feature?" Karl asked.

Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again.

Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "I'm glad we didn't build four processors. I'm not sure I could take a barbershop quartet!"

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.

He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0.