Rick Cook quotes

Rick Cook quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

#Winning Quotes #Technology Quotes #Race Quotes
“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

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

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

#Answers Quotes
“Whuf added the dragon.”
-- Rick Cook

#Dragons Quotes
“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 Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Keith Quotes
“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 Quotes #Years Quotes #Organization Quotes
“I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.”
-- Rick Cook

#Needs Quotes #Worried Quotes #Universe Quotes

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