Here are several funny and memorable quotes from the popular O'Reilly books. To make sure I'm not twisting the author's words, you may want to search for the quotes to get some context. If pages are no longer available, google's cache may allow you to accomplish your goal.
Perl Bookshelf
| "Perl CD Bookshelf" "Questions, comments, and suggestions to bookquestions@ora.com"
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| Perl in a Nutshell
| Learning Perl
| "If you bounce back and forth a lot, you'll find yourself typing the wrong things occasionally."
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| "rename fred barney die Can't rename fred to barney"
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| Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
| Programming Perl
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| "enumerating these weird, quote-like operators"
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| "social languages prefer to cooperate with other languages"
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| "Perl variable lives in a symbol table and holds one hard reference to its underlying thingy"
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| Advanced Perl Programming
| "For a delightful discussion of little languages, do have a look at Jon Bentley's More Programming Pearls"
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| "The color comes from suspended minerals and decomposed organic matter from marginal swamps"
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| Perl Cookbook
| "Single scalar variables are like hermits, living a solitary existence"
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| "Based upon the polite principle that terminals should be seen and not heard"
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| Unix Bookshelf "Unix CD Bookshelf" "Questions, comments, and suggestions to bookquestions@ora.com"
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| UNIX Power Tools
| "Whew. Read on (I recommend that you read about all of the shells)"
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| "I'd say that file permission problems are more common, but it's a close call"
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| "All computer gurus like pizza" and "Read the error on the paper"
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| UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition
| Learning the vi Editor
| sed & awk
| Learning the Korn Shell
| "When you invoke the command dave"
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| "Most signals cause a process that receives them to roll over and die"
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| Learning the UNIX Operating System
| Networking Bookshelf DNS & BIND
| "Since you would undoubtedly prefer that hackers not commandeer your name server"
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| "Good parenting is vital to the success of your network"
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| "At Movie U., we put in a firewall to protect ourselves from the Big Bad Internet"
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| TCP/IP Network Administration
| sendmail Desktop Reference
| Building Internet Firewalls
| Practical UNIX & Internet Security
| Managing NFS and NIS
| "thundering herd problem exists, which results when there are lots of threads"
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| SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
| Essential SNMP
| Network Troubleshooting Tools
| Java Bookshelf Java in a Nutshell
| Java Language Reference
| Java AWT Reference
| Java Fundamental Classes Reference
| Exploring Java
| Java Enterprise Bookshelf "Java™ Enterprise CD Bookshelf" "Questions, comments, and suggestions to bookquestions@ora.com"
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| Java Enterprise in a Nutshell
| Java in a Nutshell
| Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell
| Enterprise JavaBeans
| Java Servlet Programming
| "fit into any organized drawer and yet can't be thrown away"
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| "wish you had taken that typing course back in high school"
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| "Honest! The examples from this chapter were dreamed up only after"
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| "an applet can normally get the current time from the system"
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| Java Security
| "When Java was first released and touted as being secure"
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| Java Distributed Computing
| "agents in your distributed application safe from network hostility"
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| "ContentProducer effect2 = new GrainEffect"
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| Web Developer's Bookshelf HTML: The Definitive Guide
| "Capture and examine the source HTML documents for the juicy bits"
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| CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
| JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
| "in a URL following the javascript: pseudo-protocol specifier"
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| "this simple and elegant mix of HTML and JavaScript comments"
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| Programming Perl
| Web Master in a Nutshell
| Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C "access control handler has the job of giving thumbs up"
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