{"id":3895,"date":"2010-03-25T01:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2013-09-15T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T12:21:51","slug":"selected-quotes-about-computers-software-the-core-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/03\/25\/selected-quotes-about-computers-software-the-core-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Quotes About Computers & Software – The Core Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10<\/a> Ran across Selected Quotes About Computers & Software<\/a> at a site called The Core Memory. I have the teeshirt for this first one. The rest are for inpiration.<\/p>\n

There are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary and those that do not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Ray Roton<\/p>\n

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Old programmers never die… They just decompile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Peter Dick<\/p>\n

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I haven’t lost my mind, I have it backed up on tape somewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Unknown<\/p>\n

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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Donald Knuth<\/p>\n

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Beware of programmers who carry screw drivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Leonard Brandwein<\/p>\n

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Rich Cook<\/p>\n

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n

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If it’s there and you can see it – it’s real.
\nIf it’s not there and you can see it – it’s virtual.
\nIf it’s there and you can’t see it – it’s transparent.
\nIf it’s not there and you can’t see it – you erased it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Scott Hammer<\/p>\n

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I have a spelling checker,
\nIt came with my PC;
\nIt plainly marks four my revue
\nMistakes I cannot sea.
\nI’ve run this poem threw it,
\nI’m sure your pleased too no,
\nIts letter perfect in it’s weigh,
\nMy checker tolled me sew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Janet Minor<\/p>\n

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Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Michael Sinz<\/p>\n

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Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Unknown<\/p>\n

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I’d love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Unknown<\/p>\n

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If a train station is where a train stops, what’s a workstation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Unknown<\/p>\n

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As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Maurice Wilkes<\/p>\n

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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Janet Reno<\/p>\n

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n

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The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Nathanie Borenstein<\/p>\n

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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Sidney J. Harris<\/p>\n

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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft … and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Wernher von Braun<\/p>\n

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Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— William M. Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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