Robert's Computable Quotes
Upon these pages, I write,
the quotes and sayings, I do like!
-- Robert Ambalong
"In the beginning, the Giver of Data (GOD)
generated silicon and carbon, and the system without architecture,
and un-initialized, and randomness was upon the arrangement of the matrix....... "
"The difference between Bill Gates and God is that God's Word works."
"To go forward, you must backup." - Cardinal rule of computing.
"If it wasn't backed-up, then it wasn't important."
"The problem with computers is they only do what you tell them."
"Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal if you are all thumbs."
- Glaser and Way.
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs."
- Tom Lehrer.
"Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day;
teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks."
"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day;
if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."
".. the Twentieth Century, the innovative century that brought you WW I, WW II, and WWW."
- Bill Higgins
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't."
"ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !"
"My computer's so stupid, it thinks 1 + 1 = 10."
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers."
- Sydney J. Harris
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`In God we trust, all others we virus scan'
- Q: How many tech support people does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: We have an exact copy of the light bulb here and it seems to be working fine. Can you tell me what kind of system you have? Okay, just exactly how dark is it? Okay. There could be four or five things wrong. Have you tried the light switch?
- Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None. It's a hardware problem.
Using encryption on the Internet
is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information
from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.
-- Gene Spafford
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
- Robert Firth
"Treat your password like your toothbrush
.
Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
- Clifford Stoll
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and
I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
"But what... is it good for ?"
- An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM,
commenting on the microchip in 1968.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
"640K (of memory) ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981.
"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said:
"I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."
"Microsoft Works." - Oxymoron
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
- Edward V. Berard, "Life-Cycle Approaches"
"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: "Outlook not so good'.
I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."
"Mac users swear by their Mac, PC users swear at their PC."
"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net,
it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
- M.G. Siriam
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
- Doug Larson
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
- Jeff Pesis
"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."
- Marcus Dolengo
"In God we trust, all others we virus scan."
"The Internet is the world's largest library.It's just that all the books are on the floor."
- John Allen Paulos
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
- Farmer's Almanac, 1978
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
- Robert Wilensky
"If an infinite number of computer programmers programmed for an
infinite number of years,they would eventually come up with a
working operating system.Bill Gates, being impatient, gave
them two days and took the first one that was finished."
"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that
looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
- Guy Kawasaki
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
"No matter how fast your computer system runs, you will eventually come to think of it as slow."
"Real programmers don't comment their code.
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand ."
"The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English.
Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee
every time I add new letters like N and T."
- Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us.
(By "they" I mean "computers": I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"
- Dave Barry
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon,
and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
- Al Gore
"Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D.,
and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice."
- Sun FORTRAN Reference Manual
"0x2B | ~0x2B." - Hamlet
"Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet."
- Charlie Campbell
"Managing programmers is like trying to herd cats."
- Greg Settle
There can never be an `Absoulte Chaos', since any absolute must be lawful, i.e. It is lawful in its chaos.
"If is was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be. But as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Lewis Carroll
