| Linux Computers: 938 of 1023 |
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only
say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
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| Linux Computers: 939 of 1023 |
When the Apple IIc was introduced, the informative copy led off with a couple
of asterisked sentences:
It weighs less than 8 pounds.*
And costs less than $1,300.**
In tiny type were these "fuller explanations":
* Don't asterisks make you suspicious as all get out? Well, all
this means is that the IIc alone weights 7.5 pounds. The power
pack, monitor, an extra disk drive, a printer and several bricks
will make the IIc weigh more. Our lawyers were concerned that you
might not be able to figure this out for yourself.
** The FTC is concerned about price fixing. You can pay more if
you really want to. Or less.
-- Forbes
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| Linux Computers: 940 of 1023 |
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before --
except our fingertips will have been singed.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
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| Linux Computers: 941 of 1023 |
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't.
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| Linux Computers: 942 of 1023 |
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers
something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
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| Linux Computers: 943 of 1023 |
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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| Linux Computers: 944 of 1023 |
"Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."
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| Linux Computers: 945 of 1023 |
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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| Linux Computers: 946 of 1023 |
Why are programmers non-productive?
Because their time is wasted in meetings.
Why are programmers rebellious?
Because the management interferes too much.
Why are the programmers resigning one by one?
Because they are burnt out.
Having worked for poor management, they no longer value their jobs.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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| Linux Computers: 947 of 1023 |
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?
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