Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things that make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Computers Quotes
In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and null,and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, “Let there be registers”; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they carried; and DEC separated the […]
The same applies for other kinds of long-lasting low-level pain… The body’s response to being jabbed, pierced, and cut is to produce endorphins. . . So here’s my programme for breaking that cycle of dependency on Windows: get left arm tattooed with dragon motif, buy a crate of Jamaican Hot! Pepper Sauce, get nipples pierced. […]
The PC is the LSD of the ’90s.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.
Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Computers don’t poop, fart, fuck or laugh, and cannot detect irony. These, then, are the distinguishing characteristics of humanity.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little. (“Porterfield”)
