Alriode – Esta frase no expresa nada

“When you open your Windows you’ll see a light blue sky filled with clouds. If you look past the clouds, you’ll only see the Sun.”

– Alan Orndorff

“Real Users are afraid they’ll break the machine — but they’re never afraid to break your face.”

– Anónimo

“Windows seems to be a quite popular music group. Everyone is sharing a CD of it. Does it sell more than the Doors did?”

– ich

“In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car parked in a bad part of town, with the doors unlocked, the key in the ignition and a Post-It note on the dashboard saying, ‘Please don’t steal this.’”

– Anónimo

“Windows does not have closed ‘doors’ by default.”

– Anónimo

“It is a book about a Spanish guy called Manual. You should read it.”

– Dilbert

“Some human rights reserved.”

– Morphir (http://www.morphir.com)

“This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks.”

– Vineet Kumar

“Hoy no me puedo compilar”.

– Microsiervos

“El ordenador cuántico puede incluso realizar operaciones de I/O a nivel metafísico.”

– ich (über die Vaporware-Eigenschaft des Quantumrechners)

“Ask not how you can “do” free software business; ask what your business can “do for” free software.”

– Stephen J. Turnbull (http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp)

“Copying isn’t stealing because no one is deprived of the thing being copied. That’s Copyright Debate 101, man.”

– Mr2001 (comment on Slashdot.org)

“Why should we treat writing as a product at all? The service model works perfectly well: writing is something you do, not something you manufacture.”

– Mr2001 (another comment on Slashdot.org)

“¿120 caracteres es personalidad múltiple?”

– susmel (comment on Barrapunto about Firefox Download Day)

“Para el usuario, la interfaz es el sistema.”

– Frase del Gurú (http://makememinimal.com/2008/frase-semanal-del-guru-la-interfaz-es-el-sistema)

“And what could be more reusable than a programming language?”

– Paul Graham in “ANSI Common Lisp”

“Government intervention becomes the equivalent of ‘percussive maintenance,’ i.e., beating on the side of the machine on the chance that you’ll magically unbreak it. “

– Ars Technica (“Axioms, downturns, and a global (computer?) crash”. December 15, 2008)

“For Windows problems: Reboot.
For Linux problems: Be root.”

– random Linux support forum quote

“There are three kinds of people: men, women, and unix.”

– random Slashdot quote

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

– Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982