Two-point-five million use America Online. That’s like a city. Parents wouldn’t their kids go wandering in a city of 2.5 million people without them, or without knowing what they’re going to be doing.
Computers Quotes
So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we […]
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
The only thing I’d rather own than Windows is English or Chinese or Spanish, because then I could charge a $249 right to speak English. And I could charge you an upgrade fee when I add new letters like N and T.
Whenever someone annoys me, I create a file with his or her name on it and drag it to my Mac’s trash icon. If I’m really angry, I empty the trash, and whoever was bugging me disappears into the void.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it takes men many months to equal it.
A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ‘ID 02’. ‘ID’ is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
The last thing you want to do is think more logically. The great thing about computers is that they have no gravity systems. The logical system is the one that you make up. Computers are a wonderful way of being bizarre.
