Computer Quotes
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
Chaos often breeds life, while order breeds habit.
It is a cliche in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent - the attention to detail - makes a good product.
Ron Avitzur, Apple Programmer
I've always wanted to be able to teach Clippy what was annoying by slapping him around with the mouse cursor, just like those animals in Black & White.
MonkeyCookie
Consulting: If You're Not Part of the Solution, There's Good Money to Be Made Prolonging the Problem
Despair Inc
wisdom Surely democracy is just a way of saying "There are more of us, therefore you must do what we say". A majority vote is not often 51%, because there are normally more than two options. So then it is not 51% of the population who have it their way. Rather more than this do not get their way...makes you think that dicators have the right idea: At least they get they know they get their way.
Patrick Burn
A peach is a peach a plum is a plum a kiss isn't a kiss without some tongue.
The three principle virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Stroustrup ran to the head monk, exclaiming, "Master! I have added object-orientation to the C programming language! I have been enlightened!" to which the head monk responded by hitting him on the head with a stick.
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra
My favourite oxymoron: Microsoft Works.
Unknown
All too often, customers and managers don't know what they want until they don't get it
Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server
Power optimization is circumstance dependent and it is the electronic correlate of human selfishness.
Aubrey Charasz