C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
Computers Quotes
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.
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.
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 […]
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday’s code.
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.
All a computer does is tell a consistent story: a consistent truth or, if the programmer’s guesses are unlikely, a consistent fiction.
