``System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. Twenty years ago, on the 701, I was initiated into the productive informality of the predawn hours, when all the machine-room bosses are fast asleep at home, and the operators are disinclined to be stickers for rules.''

in Frederick P. Brooks, Jr, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering.
Reading, MA, USA : Addison-Wesley, 1975.

``In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft Windows 98.
Something must have gone wrong.''

Anonyme.