Thursday, January 27, 2005
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's 69th Law, The Odyssey File, 1984)
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
Author: Dave Barry
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
I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stronstrup
"I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew."
-Janet Minor
You recommend Macs to your friends, and Intel machines to those whom you don't mind billing by the hour." -- Anonymous
"In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun
"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
"Macintosh - we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams, Author
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -- Ernest Jan Plugge
"Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer."
Rita May Brown.
"The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity."
Patrick Murray.
"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent."
-- David Ross Brower (b. 1912), American writer, author
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-- Mitch Ratcliffe
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
E W Dijkstra.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"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 went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
``Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.''
[Bruce Schneier in The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention.]
"Never mistake motion for action." -- Ernest Hemingway
"It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit" - Anon
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-- Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's 69th Law, The Odyssey File, 1984)
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
Author: Dave Barry
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
I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stronstrup
"I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew."
-Janet Minor
You recommend Macs to your friends, and Intel machines to those whom you don't mind billing by the hour." -- Anonymous
"In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun
"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
"Macintosh - we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams, Author
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -- Ernest Jan Plugge
"Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer."
Rita May Brown.
"The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity."
Patrick Murray.
"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent."
-- David Ross Brower (b. 1912), American writer, author
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-- Mitch Ratcliffe
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
E W Dijkstra.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"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 went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
``Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.''
[Bruce Schneier in The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention.]
"Never mistake motion for action." -- Ernest Hemingway
"It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit" - Anon
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"Men are from Mars.
Women are from Venus.
Computers are from Hades."
"But what... is it good for ?"
— An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division
of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.
"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said:
'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."
"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
— M.G. Siriam
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
— Jeff Pesis
"In God we trust, all others require a virus scan."
"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
— Guy Kawasaki
"No matter how fast your computer system runs, you will eventually come to think of it as slow."
"Managing programmers is like trying to herd cats."
— Greg Settle
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Women are from Venus.
Computers are from Hades."
"But what... is it good for ?"
— An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division
of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.
"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said:
'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."
"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
— M.G. Siriam
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
— Jeff Pesis
"In God we trust, all others require a virus scan."
"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
— Guy Kawasaki
"No matter how fast your computer system runs, you will eventually come to think of it as slow."
"Managing programmers is like trying to herd cats."
— Greg Settle
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Never trust a computer you can't lift.
- Steven Jobs (Apple Computer)
- Steven Jobs (Apple Computer)
