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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view
adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance
-- Jim Horning
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 756 of 2182 |
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 757 of 2182 |
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
-- Gilb
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 758 of 2182 |
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 759 of 2182 |
Computers don't actually think.
You just think they think.
(We think.)
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 760 of 2182 |
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld
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Freebsd Fortunes 3: 761 of 2182 |
CONCEPT:
Any "idea" for which an outside
consultant billed you more than $25,000.
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Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed
from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.
-- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
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Condense soup, not books!
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CONFERENCE:
A special meeting in which the boss gathers subordinates to hear
what they have to say, so long as it doesn't conflict with what
he's already decided to do.
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