A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ‘ID 02’. ‘ID’ is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
Computers Quotes
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data – i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.
They can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do.
For thousand of years, the route to power was the control of land and armies. Today when you can put “worlds on a grain of sand,” control of specific territories declines in importance. What matters is not the control of lands but the liberation of minds.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage’s calculating machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a […]
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
DZUB-NON TRUL-PAR Tibetan word for computer, translates as finger pressing magic picture.
The computer is a moron.
