There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.
When asked to define “great” he said, “I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!”
He now works for Microsoft, writing Error Messages.
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After their successful work on HTML5, CSS5, XML5, SVG5, and Web5, the WHATWG has announced that it has started work on a new version of the Bible, to be called “Bible5”.
Girl: Are you on orkut?
Me: Yes, how did you guess?
Girl: You holding few online articles and I am smart at guessing (inside: almost everyone is on orkut ha ha).
Me: You are very smart (did I do a course on featherbedding)
Girl: For sometime I was experiencing a special feeling sitting next to you (Her eyes were as innocent as one can get)
Me: (me blushing, wanted to say, “This generally happens”) oh really!
Girl: You are hot!
Me: (blushing to the skies) hmm … (falling short of words, wanted to do an instant neologism)
Girl: Looks like you have fever, your body temperature is quite high.
Me: (Fallen off world trade center) Yes generally I have, I mean, I think I developing, I am developing a good fever, thanks.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
Dean, to the physics department. “Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for laboratories and expensive equipment and stuff. Why couldn’t you be like the math department – all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper.”