Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

~Michael Sinz

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Computer Quotes

Hardware:

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination. ~Author Unknown

Maniac /n./ An early computer built by nuts.

"Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light." -- David Ferrier

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

Software:

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. Author: Jean Rostand

Programming/Programs:

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)

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. -- Rich Cook

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." Dennis Ritchie.

Internet:

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life -- Andrew Brown

Misc:

Multi-tasking: Screwing everything up simultaneously. Anonymous