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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.

— Rick Cook The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

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Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the universe which strives to produce bigger idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and shuddered.

Wizard's Bane (1989)

Always secure your files, you never know who is lurking about.

The Wizardry Compiled (1989)

It's always the details that get you in trouble.

The Wizardry Cursed (1991)

It's how you get rid of cats. You get a 500-pound parakeet and teach it to say, "Here, kitty kitty kitty."

The Wizardry Cursed (1991)

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