"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."
- James Magary
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 1:09 PMThe word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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Mon, March 20, 2006 - 2:52 PM"If carpenters built houses the way programmers write code, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization." -- anon
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Tue, March 21, 2006 - 3:06 AM
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”
–Mitch Ratliffe
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Wed, March 29, 2006 - 10:52 PMGlobal communication so fast man can barely keep up.
--Lekiss
Escalating time wars.
--Lekiss
A great change will have a great reaction. Wether it will be in the end good or bad
time is yet to tell.
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Tue, May 9, 2006 - 7:23 AMA computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
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Fri, May 12, 2006 - 10:14 AM
“Information technology also permits clearing the space and creating instead a virtual project space... Every time you boot up your computer, you make a space for yourself – an ideological, cultural or belief space – where creative work can take place.
–John Kao, from 'Jamming'
"The easy assembly of previously disconnected data, designs, ideas and research findings, made possible by mere keystrokes on a computer – increases the chances that someone will see new connections among them and in doing so generate new insights and ideas."
–John Kao, from 'Jamming'
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Fri, May 12, 2006 - 1:18 PMThe question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsgar Dijkstra -
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Mon, December 4, 2006 - 6:41 AMProgramming 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.
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Mon, December 4, 2006 - 3:11 PMAny nitwit can understand computers. Many do. -- Ted Nelson -
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Sat, December 9, 2006 - 3:22 PMComputerization is taking over all parts of society. Older people need learn from younger people on workings of computers.
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