I've tried to say this myself on several occasions: If you really think about it, the fact that anything on a computer works is amazing. At a low level, magnets read and write ones and zeros on ridiculously fast rotating platters, and then are assembled into files, which then is stored in memory, which is then passed through a video card and converted into some format that can be displayed on a screen. Throw in networked computers and the potential for signal loss over long distances and the probability that something at some point in the process will fail, and the potential for failure increases exponentially. Maybe I'm alone, but I'm in awe of the fact that my computer doesn't just randomly catch fire and explode. - Jake Vinson I came across this today on one of my favorite sites: Worse Than Failure . A geeky site that essentially pokes fun of the mistakes other programmers make. It's good to keep for programmers because they never want to see their code fea