Computers Quotes

It’s easy to cry ‘bug’ when the truth is that you’ve got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Don’t sweat it – it’s only ones and zeros.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice.