We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
Bill McCollum
To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.
Bill Vaughan
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
Brian Eno
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SysAdmin Day Quotes |
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry
User,. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
Dave Barry
Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.
Dolly Parton
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
Eric Porterfield
Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.
Fred Blechman
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Guy Almes
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
J.H. Goldfuss
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
Jeff Hawkins
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Ken Olsen
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
Marcus Dolengo
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.
N.J. Rubenking
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
Rob Stampfli
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
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