OT - favorite fiction qoutes

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Thirteen : Recruiting Drive

If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long.

—California saying

To you or the toad.

—Niven's restatement of California saying

—well, most of the time anyway . . .

—programmer's caveat to Niven's
restatement of California saying

- Rick Cook's Wizardry Compiled. did i meantion the www.baen.com has a free library?

more Rick Cook: "We're going to need him," Nancy said. "Someone has got to explain this mess. Some of this code is literally crawling with bugs."

"You mean figuratively," Jerry corrected.

"I said literally and I mean literally," she retorted. "I tried to run one routine and I got a swarm of electric blue cockroaches." She made a face. "Four-inch-long electric blue cockroaches."
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"There's one issue we've got to settle first," Nancy said. "Catching errors."

"What's the matter, don't you like electric blue cockroaches?" Danny asked.

"Cockroaches I can live with. They glow in the dark and that makes them easy to squash. I'm more concerned about HMC or EOI-type errors."

"HMC and EOI?"

"Halt, Melt and Catch fire or Execute Operator Immediately."

[ November 10, 2003, 23:41: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]