The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Computers Quotes
Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage’s calculating machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a […]
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
DZUB-NON TRUL-PAR Tibetan word for computer, translates as finger pressing magic picture.
The computer is a moron.
My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices […]
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, […]
