So you would like to make a Linux PDA?

How NASA Sterilizes Spacecraft

"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz -- February 29, 1872.

"What is clearer proof of Roman wickedness than the sight of many nobles, to whom Roman citizenship should be valued as a splendid and dignified state, so distraught by their nation's savagery that they no longer wish to be Romans? ...far and wide they migrate either to the Goths, the Bagaudae or other tribes wherever they be in power ...preferring to live as freemen under a veneer of captivity than as captives under the guise of liberty ...the title of Roman citizen, at one time both greatly valued and dearly bought, is now repudiated and evaded." --Salvian of Marseilles

"The problem to be solved is to output a value judgment about operating systems. The assumptions being (of course) that UNIX is good and Windows is bad." Understanding Object Oriented Programming

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto"

Latin Proverbs

When writing numerical dates please use the "YYYY-MM-DD" format, as per ISO 8601. For example, 2004-03-07. It makes life simpler for us all.

"In the tenth century...the Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, in order not to part with his collection of 117,000 volumes when travelling, had them carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order." --Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

"The thing most feared in secret always happens." --Cesare Pavese, in his journal

Ashcroft is scary

"What I cannot create, I do not understand" --Richard Feynman

Hacker's Guide to Higher Math

Exotic words in the OED

"It’s a rejection card. How impersonal. Most places at least scribble something with a pen like “Good, but we’re out of business” or something. This was just a stupid card with some little ditty about plums..." Slushkiller

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian W. Kernighan

"Once upon a time, mighty Indra, lord of the heavens, king of the dawn, paused by the shores of the sea of milk and listened to the song it sang. "Just for a moment", he thought to himself. "That can't do any harm." But before he knew it, the song drew him headlong into the sea and he vanished, to be reborn in the world as a mortal..."

I'm a pig, not a god!

Koufax Awards for best lefty blogs

The Politics of Peer Review

"Java actually isn't a terrible language, compared to something like Perl for example, but there are some tremendous problems with it that I think don't get discussed openly enough..."

Java: Language of Tommorow ;)

Raiders of the Lost Ark, resurrected