Rick Cook Quotes

• 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 Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

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• 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

  "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.

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• I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.

  Rick Cook

  Answers

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• Whuf added the dragon.

  Rick Cook

  Dragons

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• 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

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• 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

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• I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

  Rick Cook

  Needs, Worried, Universe

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