DZUB-NON TRUL-PAR Tibetan word for computer, translates as finger pressing magic picture.
Computers Quotes
The computer is a moron.
My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices […]
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, […]
Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same rate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more efficient would the current models be? If you have not already heard the analogy, the answer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75, […]
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it. (1945)
You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
