add a Rick Cook quote

diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers b/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers
index 2b07dc5a9299f9b38047d5692743b9350e0edcac..fe8b587c4277885f5cc1606be4ebd6de86da5a20 100644 (file)
--- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers
+++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/computers
@@ -5631,3 +5631,11 @@ only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
 
     -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Misattributed
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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
+    -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rick_Cook
+%

diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/knghtbrd b/fortune-mod/datfiles/knghtbrd
index 47a50df24cc52292835ea8c4ddb8e7fb0c719205..61b0318ec4a5fa8de6240586b52b922463d310da 100644 (file)
--- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/knghtbrd
+++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/knghtbrd
@@ -1138,6 +1138,8 @@ NSA AGENT 1: Hey guys, did you check out slashdot over the weekend?
 Technology is a constant battle between manufacturers producing bigger and
 more idiot-proof systems and nature producing bigger and better idiots.
                -- Slashdot signature
+
+(Possibly a variation of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rick_Cook . )
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 knghtbrd: there may be no spoon, but can you spot the vulnerability in
 eye_render_shiny_object.c?