Computer Quotes and Sayings - Page 4
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.
Nathaniel Borenstei
Yesterday it worked, Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
Margaret Segall
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Peter Rothman
After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
Anonymous
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Leslie Lamport
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.
Anonymous
Some people can hack it, others can’t.
Anonymous
Rebooting is a wonder drug – it fixes almost everything.
Garrett Hazel
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll
Chaos reigns within.Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
Suzie Wagner
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
Larry Elliso
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
Anonymous
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.
Dave Barry
A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
Anonymous
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It’s just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
Scott Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
Scott Adams
I haven’t lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
Anonymous
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
One of Murphy’s Laws of Technology
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
Brian M. Porter
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
Marcus Dolengo
Home is where you hang your @.
Anonymous
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
Macintosh – we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
Douglas Adams
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
David Ansel
There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can’t bridge
Rahul Sonnad
Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1.
Anonymous
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they’re knocking off servers.
Richard Power
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
Richard P. Feynman
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