“It is a pity the universe doesn't use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!”Rick Cook Wizard's Bane (1989)
“Murphy said, 'Constants aren't', and Murphy was apparently one of the gods of this universe.”Rick Cook Wizard's Bane (1989)
“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)