Quote #371
"And With So Many Pages Sprouting Every Day, There Is A Desperate Striving
For Uniqueness, Which Has Resulted In Some Of The Stupidest Uses Of Cutting
Edge Technology Ever Seen.
"And with so many pages sprouting every day, there is a desperate striving
for uniqueness, which has resulted in some of the stupidest uses of cutting
edge technology ever seen."
-- Ashley Dunn of the NY Times, writing about the World Wide Web.
Quote #33
The 9th Commandment for C Programmers (Annotated Henry Spencer)
states thus:
IX Thy external identifiers shall be unique in the first
six characters, though this harsh discipline be irksome
and the years of its necessity stretch before thee
seemingly without end, lest thou tear thy hair out and
go mad on that fateful day when thou desirest to make
thy program run on an old system....