Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
Computers Quotes
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 […]
Computers do slow things down, but one thing can be said for them: they provide work for people who would otherwise be unemployable.
The only thing God “didn’t” do to Job was give him a computer.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
