Computer Quotes

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life..."

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

While I'm acting I'm focused on what I'm trying to say through the character. And when I'm writing, I'm just putting down on paper or on the computer what I have to say.

I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.