Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn’t work, 2) didn’t do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the […]
Computers Quotes
I’ve been asked to explain why I don’t worry much about the topics of privacy threat raised by this panel. And I don’t. One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies (of whatever character, political or economic) that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of […]
Computers do slow things down, but one thing can be said for them: they provide work for people who would otherwise be unemployable.
The only thing God “didn’t” do to Job was give him a computer.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
When you say: “I wrote a program that crashed Windows”, people just stare at you blankly and say: “Hey, I got those with the system for free.”
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.
