There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
Computers Quotes
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.
Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Computers don’t poop, fart, fuck or laugh, and cannot detect irony. These, then, are the distinguishing characteristics of humanity.
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little. (“Porterfield”)
I try to get people to see what I have… When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
Two-point-five million use America Online. That’s like a city. Parents wouldn’t their kids go wandering in a city of 2.5 million people without them, or without knowing what they’re going to be doing.
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 […]
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
