What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
Computers Quotes
An odd thought strikes me: We shall not receive e-mail in the grave. How will we survive?
Who’s General Failure and why’s he reading my disk?
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
Mosaic is the 1990’s equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida – painful for everyone but the host.
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn’t work, 2) didn’t do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the […]
I’ve been asked to explain why I don’t worry much about the topics of privacy threat raised by this panel. And I don’t. One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies (of whatever character, political or economic) that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of […]
