Computers are like saviours. They save people a lot of guesswork. (Sam Ewing) Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook) The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. (Grady Booch) One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no