The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmeris doing until it's too late. ― Seymour Cray

The words which were formerly familiar are now antiquated: so also the namesof those who were famed of old, are now in a manner antiquated... For allthings soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soonburies them. ― Marcus Aurelius, "The Meditations", Book IV

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always awell-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ― H. L. Mencken, "The Divine Afflatus" (16 November 1917)