Category Archives: Quotes

Quotes – Murphy’s Computers laws Part II

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No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough.

Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.

When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.

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Quotes – Murphy’s Computers laws Part I

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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

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Computer Quotes – C & Unix

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“It’s 5.50 a.m…. Do you know where your stack pointer is ?”

C /n./: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn’t very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn’t.
(Ray Simard)

“If it wasn’t for C, we’d be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL.”

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Computer Quotes – Operating Systems

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“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
(Jeremy S. Anderson)

“19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM”
(End of the word according to Unix–2^32 seconds after January 1, 1970)

“Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.”
(Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003)

“Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.‘ “
(Dave Barry)

Computer Quotes – Quality

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“I don’t care if it works on your machine!  We are not shipping your machine!”
(Vidiu Platon)

“Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.”
(Michael Sinz)
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