UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
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.
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog stand and says "Make me one with everything." So he hands the guy a fifty. There's a long pause, then he asks. "Where's my change?' The vendor replies "Change must come from within."