Daily Fortunes

Aug 6, 2007

[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules...
[A computer is] like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other...
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. -- Mitch Ratcliffe

A computer salesman visits a company president for the purpose...
A computer salesman visits a company president for the purpose of selling the president one of the latest talking computers. Salesman: "This machine knows everything. I can ask it any question and it'll give the correct answer. Computer, what...

A computer science student and a practical hacker...
A computer science student and a practical hacker are discussing problems the computer science student has run in to. CS Student: I have this singularly linked tail-queued list and I'm trying to make it O(1) to go backwards an item, instead of O(n)...

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't...
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

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