Think? Why think! We have computers
to do that for us.
Author: Jean Rostand
User, n. The word computer professionals
use when they mean "idiot."
Author: Dave Barry
Those parts of the system that
you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program
instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Author: Anonymous
Not even computers will replace
committees, because committees buy computers.
Author: Edward Shepherd Mead
Once a new technology
rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the
road.
Author: Stewart Brand
One of the problems the
internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots
have internet access.
Author: Peter Nelson
PCMCIA - People Can't
Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
Author: Unknown
People who buy Macs are
the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago.
Author: Unknown
pixel, n.: A mischievous,
magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has
frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics,
the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
Author: Jeff Meyer
PROGRAM - n. A magic spell
cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall,
but with fewer
opportunities for reward.
Author: Unknown
Programmer - an organism
that turns coffee into software.
Author: Anonymous
Programming today is a
race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof
programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So
far, the Universe is winning.
Author: Rich Cook
RAM disk is not an installation
procedure.
Author: Anonymous
They have computers, and
they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Author: Janet Reno
To
create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different.
It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination.
And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that
meets that standard.
Author: Bill Gates
To err is human - and
to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Author: Robert Orben
To err is human, but to
really foul things up requires a computer.
Author: Farmers' Almanac, 1978
Too bad men aren't like
computers. Predictable, compliant, full of answers but no questions...yet
able to deliver an occasional delightful surprise.
Author: Brenda Starr
Treat your password like
your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every
six months.
Author: Clifford Stoll
Version
1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great.
Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff
in Version 2.
Author: Fred Blechman
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