What is the meaning of life? All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate.


Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces
   Judith Viorst, Author of  children's literature

Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies....
  John Q.  Tullius, Artist

I never met a chocolate I didn't like."
      Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtus) in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Make a list of important things to do today. At the top of your list, put 'eat chocolate.' Now, you'll get at least one thing done today.
      May be from Gina Hayes


All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
        Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

 There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles...
       Author unknown

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
         Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE
     Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"

Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can.
     Author unknown

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
  A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found
    Federal Express Corp.)
  
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make
it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
    C. A. R. Hoare

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense
   Edsgar Dijkstra

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.  
     Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware  speedups not being able to keep up with software demands.


 640K ought to be enough for anybody.  
      Bill Gates, in 1981

Good design comes from experience, experience comes from bad design.
      Fred Brooks

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
    Bjarne Stroustrup


There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
   Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977


I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
    Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

 A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done because a  machine I've never heard of is down.
   Leslie Lamport

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about  telescopes.
     E.W. Dijkstra

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting  than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
     E.W. Dijkstra

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
     Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 Hardware is the part of a computer system that can be kicked and software
 is the part that can only be screamed at.  
     Unknown Author

 Smith & Wesson had the original point and click interface.  
    Unknown Author