A few of my favorites (not programmer specific): A scientist is a machine that converts money into ideas while an engineer is a machine that converts ideas int

A few of my favorites (not programmer specific): A scientist is a machine that converts money into ideas while an engineer is a machine that converts ideas into money. --------------------------- An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. Fortunately for this joke, a small fire breaks out in each room. The physicist awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's wine list does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher, he puts out the fire with one, short, well placed burst, and then crawls back into bed and goes back to sleep. The engineer awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's room service list (pizza menu) does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher (and adding a factor of safety of 5), he puts out the fire by hosing down the entire room several times over, and then crawls into his soggy bed and goes back to sleep. The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick calculations. Jubliant, he exclaims "A solution exists!", and crawls into his dry bed and goes back to sleep. --------------------------- better !pout !cry better watch a.out lpr why santa claus < northpole > town ypcat passwd > list ncheck list ncheck list grep naughty < list > nogiftlist grep nice < list > giftlist santa claus < northpole > town who | grep sleeping who | grep awake why | egrep "bad|good" for i in goodness sake ; do be good done