Rick Cook famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Rick Cook

#Winning #Technology #Race
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.
-- Rick Cook

#Ideas #Iron #Wizardry
I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.
-- Rick Cook

#Answers
Whuf added the dragon.
-- Rick Cook

#Dragons
Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.
-- Rick Cook

#People #Rooms #Keith
We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.
-- Rick Cook

#Fall #Years #Organization
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Rick Cook

#Needs #Worried #Universe

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

Rick Cook famous quotes

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