Computers Quotes

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"We're not meant to operate like computers. Human beings are designed to pulse between spending/renewing energy."

The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots. They do exactly what you tell them at amazing speed. Even if you order them to kill you. So if you do happen to change your mind, it's very difficult to stop them from obeying the original order. [Stops computer from destroying Earth] But not impossible.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Not having to go to a library is a very important improvement in providing library service.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

Engineering without art can be ugly, but art without engineering can be impossible

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

In college I was a psychology major at the same time as being a computer-science major. I say that fairly frequently, and people can't understand it. It's like, obviously I'm a CS person! But I was always interested in how those two things combined. For me, computers were always just a way to build good stuff, not like an end in itself.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot.

Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, they are quick to anger and have no need for subtlety.

31337 is a prime number, go figure...

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user-friendly than Windows Vista. I don't like that.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

I believe there is a world market for maybe five computers.