Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.