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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs.
There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.
I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.
Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you.
It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising.
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.
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
The more I C, the less I see.
Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.
I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better.
I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.