#compute

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many. ↗

— Glenn Turner

#computer #just #just one #many #too

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#programming #sicp #science

Ask not, what you must do for your computer. Fear instead, what your computer can do to you. ↗

— with apologies to John F. Kennedy

#disaster #humor #humor

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. ↗

— John Rachel

#cerebral #computers #gymnastics #intelligence #orangutan

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid. ↗

— John Pfeiffer

#inspiration #technology #inspirational

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day. ↗

— Dan Brown

#challenges #change #computer #day #essentially

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. ↗

— Steve Case

#befuddled #better #computers #easier #expensive

My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.' ↗

— Silvia Colloca

#age #body #computer #cyber #ever

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. ↗

— David Crane

#after #age #amazing #another #college

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me