Quotes by Subject: Internet & Computing
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. | |||
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. | * | ||
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. | |||
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | |||
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. | |||
We don't know where the digital revolution is taking us, only that when we get there we will not have enough RAM. | |||
The killer app will not be a shrink-wrapped program that sells millions. The killer app will be a Web site that touches millions of people and helps them to do what they want to do. | |||
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. | |||
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. | |||
All great stories have three acts. In the first act, the heroes are introduced to great fanfare. In the second, the heroes, on the verge of victory, stumble and take a fall. And in the third act, the heroes return, victorious, to win the battle. | |||
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. | |||
The nature of life is to make a virtue of the inevitable. | * | ||
In Internet terms, when you talk about content, what you're really talking about are goods and services -- the selling of goods or the dissemination of services. That's what interactivity is. | |||
I don't know the percentage of the Internet that's valid, do you?? Jesus, it's scary. | |||
These are the good old days. | |||
Crash programs fail because they are based on a theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. | |||
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. | |||
Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. | |||
There is already too much porn for us to comprehend easily. And each day there will only be more of it, not less. Inexorably, porn drowns in its own mass. It needs to breathe, and the air it needs is relevance. | |||
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. | |||
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster. | |||
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. | |||
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. | |||
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. | |||
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. | |||
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. | |||
On the Internet, everyone knows you're a dog. | |||
On the Internet, not only does everyone know you're a dog, everybody knows what kind of dog, how old, your taste in collars, your favorite dog food recipe and so on. | |||
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. | |||
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. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
