Quotes about computers
If it draws blood, it's hardware.
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We don't manage our time as well as we manage our space. There's an overhead of starting and an overhead of stopping a project because you kind of lose your momentum. And you've got to bracket and put aside all the things you're already doing. So you need reasonably large blocks of uninterrupted time if you're going to be successful at doing some of these things. That's why hackers tend to stay up late. If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.
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Bill Joy Quotes
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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Richard Power Quotes
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.
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The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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Joseph Campbell Quotes
Some people can hack it, others can't.
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
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Guy Almes Quotes
Macintosh - we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
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Richard P. Feynman Quotes
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
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After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
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John Pierce Quotes
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.
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Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
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Doug Gwyn Quotes
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.
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Jeremy S. Anderson Quotes
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
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Doug Larson Quotes
Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
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Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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Scott Adams Quotes
Home is where you hang your @.
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The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.
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Unix never says "please."
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Rob Pike Quotes
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
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Dave Barry Quotes
What boots up must come down.
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In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
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Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
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Garrett Hazel Quotes
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
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Scott Adams Quotes
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
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J.H. Goldfuss Quotes
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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Mitch Ratcliffe Quotes
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.
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Dave Barry Quotes
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
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Richard Feynman Quotes
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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Nicholas P. Negroponte Quotes
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
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Alan Turing Quotes
At least my pencil never crashes!
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