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In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.": Bruce Sterling
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.: Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
An old puzzle asks how a barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. Answers range from dropping the instrument from the top and measuring the time of its fall to giving it to the building's superintendent in return for a look at the plans. A modern version of the puzzle asks how a personal computer can balance a checkbook. An elegant solution is to sell the machine and deposit the money.: Jon Bentley, More Programming Pearls
It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea...": Tom Galloway
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 (1919 - )
If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.": Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies: Bill Bulko
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.: Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.: Alan Perlis

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