cynical folk wisdom

[Jonathan Lighter]

Prolix.

JL

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The Yale Book of Quotations has this:
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> Rick Cook
> U.S. science fiction writer, 1944-
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> Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who
> strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives
> to produce bigger idiots.—Software engineers’ saying
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> So far the Universe is winning. - Applications programmers’ saying
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> The Wizardry Compiled ch. 6 (1990)
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> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
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> > On 07/13/2012 10:04 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> >> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> "Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot."
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> >> A variant from the Jesus-v.-Moses subset:
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> >> "Jesus Saves. Moses Invests."
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> > "But the Mongol hoards."
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