Computer Quotes

Linux is only free if your time is worthless.

The Unix 'file system' Sure it corrupts your data, but look how fast it is !

Software Independent: Won't work with ANY software.

To define recursion, we must first define recursion.

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Ralph Johnson

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Alan J. Perlis

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsgar W. Dijkstra

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman R. Augustine

Standard are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.

F. L. Bauer

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.

And you know how slow that frame buffer was ? Let's just say it's the first time I saw DSL downloads being braked by the speed of updating the progress bar.

Moraelin

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan J. Perlis

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

The definition of a hacker ? Someone who, after installing a new program, goes immediately into the [Tools][Options] menu.