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Because it’s a “famous” (in our circles) quote. You might prefer this one:

> There’s two hard problems in computer science: We only have one joke and it's not funny.





There are at least one more joke:

"There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."

Personally I prefer the cache invalidation one.


> "There is 10 kinds of people, those who can read binary and those who can't."

I like the continuation (which requires knowledge of the original): “And those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3”.




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