proverbs about computers
2007-01-17 00:49:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
* Home is where you hang your @.
* The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
* A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
* You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
* C: is the root of all directories.
* Don't put all your hypes in one home page.
* Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.
* The modem is the message.
* Too many clicks spoil the browse.
* The geek shall inherit the earth.
* A chat has nine lives.
* Don't byte off more than you can view.
* Fax is stranger than fiction.
* What boots up must come down.
* Windows will never cease.
* Virtual reality is its own reward.
* Modulation in all things.
* A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
* Know what to expect before you connect.
* Oh, what a tangled website we weave when first we practice.
* Speed thrills.
* Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to
use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks
2007-01-17 01:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us".
Author: Jean Rostand
User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
Author: Dave Barry
"Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software".
"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers".
Author: Edward Shepherd Mead
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road".
Author: Stewart Brand
"One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in the electronic village all the village-idiots have internet access".
Author: Peter Nelson
"PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
"People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago".
"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department."
Author: Jeff Meyer
"PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward".
"Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software".
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning".
Author: Rich Cook
"RAM disk is not an installation procedure".
"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction".
Author: Janet Reno
"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard".
Author: Bill Gates
"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so".
Author: Robert Orben
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer".
Author: Farmers' Almanac, 1978
"Too bad men aren't like computers. Predictable, compliant, full of answers but no questions...yet able to deliver an occasional delightful surprise".
Author: Brenda Starr
"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months".
Author: Clifford Stoll
"Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2".
Author: Fred Blechman
2007-01-17 01:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by Raunaq S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like this one... the e-mail of the species is greater deadly than the mail. A room and not employing a working laptop or computing device is almost a physique and not employing a soul. (Cicero could have stated that if he had a working laptop or computing device).
2016-10-31 08:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are dressed up and no place to go sit before a computer and go world over.
2007-01-20 03:41:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the best:
A picture is worth a thousand words and occupies a thousand times as much memory.
2007-01-17 16:52:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exercise for finger is typing in key board.Mistakes in life is like the net virus
2007-01-19 01:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Garbage in Garbage out.
2007-01-17 03:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by SKG R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to err is human, to really foul things up, u need a computer!
2007-01-18 04:04:56 · answer #8 · answered by pinks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. keeping your fingers on the key board, and mind in US wont take you any where in career..
2007-01-17 00:59:11 · answer #9 · answered by Chungath 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋