A Stack Overflow brick in the Computer History Museum wall

Question

I'm thinking stackoverflow.com llc / inc should buy a brick in the Computer History Museum Wall.

It's for a noble cause -- the CHM is one of my favorite places on the planet, and the money is a non-profit donation in support of their effort to record the history of the computer.

The brick I am looking at is the Terabyte:

The wall will consist of a series of permanent high-tech plaques engraved with your message. Honor your favorite computer pioneer, recall your first technology project, or annotate any technology memory you wish to commemorate in this special area. Each engraved wall plaque will be placed in the newly remodeled entry area of the Museum, ensuring that your reminiscences will be preserved and shared for years to come.

• Name: Terabyte
• Price: $5000
• Description: 8" x 8" Plaque
• Max Lines of Text: 6
• Max Characters per Line: 18
• Company logo or Stock Symbol available

So, then, the question: what should our CHM plaque say?

Completed, selection made public, and payment confirmed with the Museum: Our Brick in the Computer History Museum Wall. Now we wait for October to see it live!

Answer 1

  123456789012345678
1 stackoverflow.com
2 Dedicated to the 
3 expert programmers
4 whose tireless
5 work made this
6 brick possible.

Stack Overflow Plaque at CHM

Prototype: ( Source )

Picture:

Answer 2

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1 stackoverflow.com 
2
3  closed as exact
4    duplicate of
5  brick #13379001
6

Answer 3

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1 stackoverflow.com
2 
3 How do I move the
4  turtle in LOGO? 
5 
6 

Answer 4

  123456789012345678
1 See:
2 http://meta.
3  stackoverflow
4   .com/
5    questions/46920 
6 for brick history

Answer 5

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1 stackoverflow.com
2  \ji
3  /.((( 
4 (,/"(((__,--.
5    \  ) _( /{ 
6    !|| " :||      

Answer 6

Kicking things off with my dumb suggestion.

Remember the brick is 6 lines of 18 characters!

  123456789012345678
1 stackoverflow.com
2 our VC asked us to
3 build a business 
4 but we spent all 
5 their money on
6 this brick instead

Answer 7

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1 to ask questions 
2 is human, 
3 but 
4 to provide
5 expert answers is
6 stackoverflow.com

Answer 8

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1 stackoverflow.com:
2 The only place
3 where you can get
4 100 answers
5 for what to write
6 on this brick.

Answer 9

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1 stackoverflow.com
2 None of us
3 Is as Dumb
4 As all of Us
5 -Jeff Atwood & 
6  Joel Spolsky

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/09/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us.html

Answer 10

Poetized version of Atwood's earlier answer.

Answered questions quick
VCs made wallets thick
Won some cash to kick some ass
But spent it on this brick.

  123456789012345678
1 Answered questions
2 quick, VCs made
3 wallets thick, Won
4 some cash to kick
5 some ass but spent
6 it on this brick

_{(source: sampsonresume.com)}

Answer 11

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1 Programming Q&A?
2 StackOverflow.com
3 has both.
4 -- Answered 2009
5 community briki
6 Jeff Atwood

Answer 12

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1 stackoverflow.com
2 Asking 14-million
3 expert programmers
4 what to write
5 on this brick.
6 [status-completed]

Of course, we'll need the actual # of users.

Answer 13

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1 stackoverflow.com
2
3 [closed]brick
4 
5 not programming
6 related

Answer 14

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1 stackoverflow() {
2   ask_questions;
3   get_answers;
4   rep++;
5   return profit;
6 }

Answer 15

It really should be something in code . . . and this seems like the most obvious choice:

  123456789012345678
1 /* See:
2  StackOverflow.com
3 */
4 public int Foo() {
5     return Foo();
6 }

Because of course the logical place that someone would come to figure out what that means, or how to fix it is to visit StackOverflow.com.

Answer 16

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1 StackOverflow.com
2 Dedicated to the
3 tireless effort of
4 expert programmers
5 making this brick
6 [status-complete]

Answer 17

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1 ___|_____|_____|__
2 |_____|_____|_____
3 ___|_____|_____|__
4 |_____|_____|_____
5 ___|_____|_____|__
6 |_____|_____|_____

It's just another brick in the wall.

Answer 18

I prefer a more nuanced message:

  123456789012345678
1 Add 2 parts Q & A,
2 1 part Wiki,
3 1 part forum.
4 Bake for 6-8 weeks
5 Makes 3-4 servings
6 stackoverflow.com

Answer 19

First brick here?
Check out the FAQ!

Answer 20

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1 stackoverflow\.com
2.you shouldn't par\
3.se [X]HTML with re
4.gular expressions.
5.have you tried HT\
6.ML Parser instead?

Answer 21

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1        \   |
2      __  \  |
3        --_ \ |
4    | ______ |
5    |________|
6 stackoverflow.com

Answer 22

if you're looking        
for gender reass-      
ignment, you've          
come to the wrong
place 
 stackoverflow.com

Answer 23

  123456789012345678
1  
2 
3 (λx.x x) (λx.x x)
4 stackoverflow.com
5 
6 

Answer 24

  123456789012345678
1 stackoverflow.com
2
3   eventually
4  we'd like to
5     be an
6    exhibit

Answer 25

How about:

  123456789012345678
1
2            Alconja
3              3,772
4          ●1 ●3 ●16
5  
6 stackoverflow.com

Ok, maybe I'm not well known enough... so perhaps:

  123456789012345678
1
2          Jon Skeet
3            168,276
4     ●31 ●593 ●1153
5
6 stackoverflow.com

Or:

  123456789012345678
1
2      Jeff Atwood ♦
3             58,226
4       ●9 ●110 ●190
5
6 stackoverflow.com

Answer 26

  123456789012345678
1 The only community
2 on the internet
3 where users enjoy
4 when avatars are
5 hacked and turned
6 into unicorns.

Answer 27

  123456789012345678
1 stackoverflow.com
2  
3 Fixing the
4 internet
5 one question
6 at a time

Answer 28

The solution is obvious. You need to buy many bricks, and set them up with graphics of the game breakout.

Answer 29

Not to rain in your parade, but this is the kind of neighbours you'd have?

Answer 30

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