Computer Quotes - Page 26

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

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

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

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.

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.

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

I was shocked when I looked at art schools in France. There's only one left that does anatomy. Now they do video. They do editing. I would go to film school if I wanted to do video and editing. In art school, it's only new mediums. It's three-dimensional or computer. I found that shocking. No nudes.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

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

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

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

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

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

Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.

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

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

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.

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

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

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

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

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.