Linux Computers

Comparing software engineering to classical engineering assumes that software
has the ability to wear out.  Software typically behaves, or it does not.  It
either works, or it does not.  Software generally does not degrade, abrade,
stretch, twist, or ablate.  To treat it as a physical entity, therefore, is
misapplication of our engineering skills.  Classical engineering deals with
the characteristics of hardware; software engineering should deal with the
characteristics of *software*, and not with hardware or management.
                -- Dan Klein

COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from
a corporation whose president codes in octal.
                -- J.N. Gray

... computer hardware progress is so fast.  No other technology since
civilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price
gain in 30 years.
                -- Fred Brooks

Computer programmers do it byte by byte.

Computer programmers never die, they just get lost in the processing.

Computer programs expand so as to fill the core available.

Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing
to a building as being maintenance
                -- Jim Horning

Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.

Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
                -- Gilb