Computers

(21 votes)   First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.

George Carrette

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(21 votes)   If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes... Oh, wait a minute, he already does.

Unknown

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(21 votes)   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.

Nathaniel Borenstein

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(21 votes)   The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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(20 votes)   A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Leslie Lamport

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(20 votes)   Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Bill Bulko

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(20 votes)   Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.

Laurent Gasser

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(20 votes)   In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.

Bruce Sterling

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(20 votes)   The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.

Marcus Dolengo

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(18 votes)   By striving to move the Intel-standard PC world towards a 32-bit operating system, new 32-bit applications and friendlier hardware standards, Microsoft Corp. can be compared to a person trying to kick a whale down the beach. What's amazing is that with Windows 95, the whale moved.

Stephen Howard

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(18 votes)   In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

G. Hopper

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(18 votes)   It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'-- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.

Steven C. Meyer

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(17 votes)   A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila.

Mitch Ratliffe

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(17 votes)   Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all .

Glaser and Way

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(17 votes)   I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later.

William Fink
Superintendent with American Park Service

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