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Friday, April 08, 2005

Some cool quotes on computers !!

You never finish a program, you just stop working on it.

Best file compression around: DEL *.* = 100% compression

Computers do not solve problems, they execute solutions.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net. -- Senator Bob Dole

There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. -- Clifford Stoll

Syntactic sugar consumption leads to cancer of the semicolon.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. -- Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Issac Asimov

The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't 'broken'.

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsgar Dijkstra

What boots up must come down

If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.

If it wasn't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL.

Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again. -- Al Goodman

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. -- Stephen Hawking

--(A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network?

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. -- J. H. Goldfuss

Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.

Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.

Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

To define recursion, we must first define recursion...

The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines. -- Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. -- Bill Gates

Java is, in many ways, C++--

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.

I'm in the computer business, I make Out-Of-Order signs.

/* You are not expected to understand this */

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. -- Rich Cook

All computers wait at the same speed

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier to do don't need to be done. -- Andy Rooney

Reach out and grep someone. -- Bell Labs Unix

The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.

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