You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.