Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. – George Box

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away. - Wall-E creator Andrew Stanton

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. –Bjarne Stroustrup

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. – J. von Neumann

You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that’s what people want. It’s not like Windows users don’t have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that’s an incredibly depressing thought. – Steve Jobs on “suck”

Imagine that you’ve got a disease that strikes one in a million people, and a test for the disease that’s 99% accurate. You administer the test to a million people, and it will be positive for around 10,000 of them – because for every hundred people, it will be wrong once (that’s what 99% accurate means). Yet, statistically, we know that there’s only one infected person in the entire sample. That means that your “99% accurate” test is wrong 9,999 times out of 10,000! – Cory Doctorow

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! – C-3PO

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. –Eric Raymond

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone. –Bjarne Stroustrup

Praising companies for providing APIs to get your own data out is like praising auto companies for not filling your airbags with gravel. I’m not saying data export isn’t important, it’s just aiming kinda low. You mean when I give you data, you’ll give it back to me? People who think this is the pinnacle of freedom aren’t really worth listening to. –DiveIntoMark