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• Many companies that have made themselves dependent on [the equipment of a certain major manufacturer] (and in doing so have sold their soul to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered complexity of their data processing systems.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5...
• vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n. [analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease said to afflict C programmers who persist in coding according to certain assumptions that are valid (esp.
  under Unix) on VAXen but false elsewhere. Among these are...
• There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
  -- Stephen Still...
• Quote #578 I think part of the reason people in big companies like object-oriented programming is because it yields a lot of what looks like work.
  Something that might naturally be represented as, say, a list of integers, can now be represented as a class with all kinds of scaffolding and hustle and bustle....
• one of the things that tools can do is to help bad designers create ghastly designs much more quickly than they ever could in the past.
  -- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Desig...
• How many people -- does it take to change an object-oriented light bulb?
  Change it? Aw shucks, I was going to reuse it....
• And now that the legislators and the do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they end up where they should have begu
  may they reject all systems, and try liberty... -- Frederic Bastia...
• C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions.
  Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class....
• cons /konz/ or /kons/ [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp.
  at the top. "OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda....