Computer Quotes - Page 27

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?

The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.