Following is the collection of some funny quotes regarding computers.
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.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie.
The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.
Al Goodman.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
Andy Rooney.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
E W Dijkstra.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
If you don’t know how to do something, you don’t know how to do it with a computer.
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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I loved this post!!! I like the quotes they are so true particularly the one about computers doing things that don’t actually need to be done!!
Nice article.
Some are cute comments that gave me smirks
I like this one the best, I think
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
If we can get management to understand the truth of this “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” then this world would be a much quicker place
Bill Gates wants users of his software to know how the software works. Users of Bill Gates’ software want to know how to use it. Somehow, this distinction needs to be understood. In the meantime, Google is the best source of information regarding how to use Mr. Gates’ software.