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#2201 |  | The algorithm for finding the longest path in a graph is NP-complete. For you systems people, that means it's *real slow*. -- Bart Miller
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#2202 |  | "The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
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#2203 |  | The Analytical Engine weaves Algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. -- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace, the first programmer
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#2204 |  | "The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything." -- Jim Joyce, owner of Jim Joyce's UNIX Bookstore
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#2205 |  | The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer. -- John M. Ford, a.k.a. Dr. Mike
[If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session at Baycon, I believe he added that the beer-cooled computer uses "Forget Only Memory". Ed.]
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#2206 |  | The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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#2207 |  | The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
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#2208 |  | The bogosity meter just pegged.
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#2209 |  | The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself. -- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
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#2210 |  | The bugs you have to avoid are the ones that give the user not only the inclination to get on a plane, but also the time. -- Kay Bostic
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