A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Computers: female or male ?
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jonathan
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7:14 AM
Computers must be female. No one but the creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you." Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
Computers must be male. As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the day.
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Computers must be male. As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the day.
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Home computers
Posted by
jonathan
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5:11 AM
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 1977
Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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The use of computers
Posted by
jonathan
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5:07 AM
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
Andy Rooney
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Home computers
Posted by
jonathan
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5:11 AM
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 1977
Ken Olsen , President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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Technology in business
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jonathan
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1:22 AM
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency
Bill Gates
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency
Bill Gates
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RAM
Posted by
jonathan
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12:52 AM
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Misattributed to Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981 :
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "
Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)
(Thanks for the correction, Paul Cobbaut)
Misattributed to Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981 :
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "
Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)
(Thanks for the correction, Paul Cobbaut)
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Prediction
Posted by
jonathan
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12:50 AM
"I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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