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• Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes.
  Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room....
• Real software engineers play tennis. In general, they don't like any sport that involves getting hot and sweaty and gross when out of range of a shower.
  (Thus mountain climbing is Right Out.) They will occasionally wear their tennis togs to work, but only on very sunny days....
• Real computer scientists play go. They have nothing against the concept of mountain climbing, but the actual climbing is an implementation detail best left to programmers.
• Mountain Climbing: Andover Hand
• Alpenstock
  limited number of shares in mountain real estate -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any Real Programmers are around at 9 AM, it's because they were up all night.
• An ulcer is what you get mountain-climbing over molehills.