Maybe you consider this an old joke? however I hadn't heard it before - I laughed.

Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/mit
Date: Mon Aug 22 14:21:59 CES 2005

--- /sys/games/lib/fortunes	Mon Aug 22 14:21:47 2005
+++ /sys/games/lib/fortunes	Mon Aug 22 14:21:31 2005
@@ -4077,3 +4077,4 @@
 Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste better than tree bark.  - Thant Tessman
 (Of course SML does have its weaknesses, but by comparison, a discussion of C++'s strengths and flaws always sounds like an argument about whether one should face north or east when one is sacrificing one's goat to the rain god.)  - Thant Tessman
 C++ is history repeated as tragedy.  Java is history repeated as farce.  - Scott McKay
+Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. (MIT job advertisement)