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Rick Cook is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such a background. Wikipedia  

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Famous Rick Cook 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

The Wizardry Consulted (1995)

“Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and shuddered.”

Rick Cook

Wizard's Bane (1989)

“The law of similarity made any map a magical instrument.”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“What happened, get lost in the directory tree again?”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Consulted (1995)

“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

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

Rick Cook Quotes

“Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again.”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“Murphy said, 'Constants aren't', and Murphy was apparently one of the gods of this universe.”

Rick Cook

Wizard's Bane (1989)

“"The question is, is that a bug or a feature?" Karl asked.”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "I'm glad we didn't build four processors. I'm not sure I could take a barbershop quartet!"”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“Always secure your files, you never know who is lurking about.”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

“As flat as an open can of coke, left on a programmer's desk over the weekend.”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Consulted (1995)

“He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0.”

Rick Cook

Wizard's Bane (1989)

“What was that?" Jerry asked, peering over the edge. "I think it was a ninja dwarf." Wiz said wonderingly…”

Rick Cook

Wizardry Cursed

“It's how you get rid of cats. You get a 500-pound parakeet and teach it to say, "Here, kitty kitty kitty."”

Rick Cook

The Wizardry Cursed (1991)

“It's always the details that get you in trouble.”

Rick Cook

Wizardry Cursed

“Never ask them for an explanation. You only end up worse confused.”

Rick Cook

Wizardry Cursed

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