9- It's a nice way to avoid the social and personal stresses that go with upward mobility.

8- It's the satisfaction - every time I finish the re-install and reboot cycle I feel I've learnt something new and contributed in a meaningful way to my colleagues, my community, and my culture.

7- Between the heat, the darkness, the double doors, and the noise, working in the data center is like returning to the womb every day.

6- I'm hoping to use the contacts I make working on the help desk to break into top management and show all those pretty party people who ignored me in high school who I really am.

5- I just love working with new technology - new challenges, new patches, new racks to install everyday.

4- I love having that pager on my belt - it makes me feel, you know, manly.

3- "Down, not Across" - IT just makes sense.

2- I love the travel - in my last job I spent six weeks training people in Lahore, now I'm looking forward to visiting Poland.

And the number one reason for for working in IT?

1- It's the babes! stupid.

Paul Murphy

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.

• Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
• If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
• If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
• Any program will expand to fill all available memory.
• The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
• Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it.
• Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find out the programmers cannot write in English.

Anonymous from The University of Texas at Austin
discovered in ancient 1984's papers.