I couldn’t connect to the internet on the virtual box.
I finally was able to connect after I did this to get the network to start:
edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to contain the following lines:
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
(those lines were already in there but ONBOOT=no before)
service network restart
I was trying to cheer myself up so I went looking for programming / computer quotes and made a list of these ones that I like. If there is no author specified that is because there was none provided and I wasn’t in the mood for extra homework. The sites are listed at the bottom. I think I remembered to mention them all.
“The only difference between a bug and a feature is the documentation.”
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” — Donald E. Knuth.
“Error, no keyboard — press F1 to continue.”
“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”
“To err is human, but for a real disaster you need a computer.”
“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem you encounter resembles a nail.”
“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.” (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.” (Brian Kernigan)
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.” (Grady Booch)
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.” (Edward Tufte)
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
“I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers.” (Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ~Rich Kulawiec
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. ~Alan J. Perlis
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
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems – Jamie Zawinski
Optimization hinders evolution.
Computation has made the tree flower.
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out that we do and they don’t.
sources:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640?sort=votes
http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/08/17/favorite-programming-quotes/
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000855.html
http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quotes/
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