14 Quotes by Rick Cook

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.

If trees go down, it's fine as long as the reason is a naturally caused one. Our real concern is altered water flow from upstream, and hurricanes don't change that one way or another.

It reminds me of being up north. I've never seen the trees bare like this.

I am very impressed with the application. I believe the power of the program is the report generator. This is much less labor intensive than the tools I have used in the past.

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.

Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.

I have all the answers, it's just that most of them aren't right.

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.