#compute

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#steve-jobs #faith

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#caves #computer #funny #old-fashioned #writer

I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out it was an awful lot of fun. Of course the paying customers got shafted every now and then and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them setting them off in new directions and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible sales-men. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more. ↗

— Alan J. Perlis

#inspirational #programming #inspirational

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. ↗

— Muhammad Waseem

#computerm-marriage #human #poetry #marriage

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#internet #internet

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#computers #itunes #mac #steve-jobs #windows

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #bad #better #cars #computer

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #lived #never #opportunity #people

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#here #i #illiterate #luck #out

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#hum #i #i write #into #lyrics