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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Computers

 A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. 
 A country's constitution is only a local ordinance in cyberspace. 
 A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. 
 Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes. 
 Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. 
 Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. 
 Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies. 
 As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. 
 As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. 
 Astronauts use Linux because you can't open Windows in space. 
 At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. 
 British websites uses biscuits instead of cookies. 
 Bugs are sons of glitches. 
 Bugs come in through open Windows. 
 Buses stop at bus stations, trains at train stations, and my desk has a workstation. 
 By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself. 
 Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. 
 Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow. 
 Computers are not intelligent: they only think they are. 
 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. 
Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas.
 Computers follow your orders, not your intentions. 
 Disinformation is not as good as datinformation. 
 Don't anthropomorphise computers: they hate that. 
 Hardware is the part of a computer system that can be kicked and software is the part that can only be screamed at. 
 I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. 
 I really hate this damned machine
I wish they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it. 
 If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity. 
 In an open source world without walls and fences we don't need Windows and Gates. 
 Information is any difference that makes a difference. 
 Is a 5.25 floppy better than a 3.5 hard? 
 It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. 
 Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. 
 Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware. 
 Never allow a computer to know you're in a hurry. 
 Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. 
 Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. 
 Osborn's Law: Constants aren't; variables won't. 
 Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. 
 RAM disk is not an installation procedure. 
 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. 
 Real programs don't eat cache. 
 Real stupidity will beat artificial intelligence every time. 
 Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF 
 Smith & Wesson had the original point and click interface. 
 The Internet is proof that a million monkeys with a million typewriters can't write Hamlet. 
 The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. 
 The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. 
 There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. 
 There's no place like 127.0.0.1 
 To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.