Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
Computers Quotes
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Each of these cults correspond to one of the two antagonists in the age of Reformation. In the realm of the Apple Macintosh, as in Catholic Europe, worshipers peer devoutly into screens filled with “icons.” All is sound and imagery and Appledom. Even words look like decorative filigrees in exotic typefaces. The greatest icon of […]
In cyberspace everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
To err is human, to compute divine. Trust your computer but not its programmer
Owed to a Spell Chequer: Eye halve a spelling chequer, It came with my pea see, It plainly marques four my review, Miss steaks eye kin not sea. Eye strike a key and type a word, And weight four it two say, Weather eye am wrong oar rite… It shows me strait a weigh. As […]
Everything that I’ve learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won’t work, but if you find the right wizard, he can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won’t. PC/Windows: You think it won’t work, and it won’t.
Sure I want to use computers, since I’ve never screwed anything up at the speed of light before!
He who hasn’t hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
