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Quotations from the world of computing

by Angela on Mai.25, 2011, under windows news

Quotations from the world of computing

Over the years computing has been around, there are many phrases that have gone down in history for his wit, humor or be absurd (eg, the predictions were wrong full).

In this article we have collected 40 of these quotations, some heavyweights like Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs, and other lesser known people whose sentences have made a dent in history.

Computers

Bill Gates

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist

Bill Gates – Microsoft co-founder

The hardware is what makes a fast machine, the software is what makes a fast machine slow to become

Bruce Craig in 1990

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked

Jeff Pesis

The software is a gas: it expands to fill its container

Nathan Myhrvold – former Microsoft technology manager

The most impressive achievement of the software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains of the hardware industry

Henry Petroski – Especialista en analisis de fallos

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers

Pablo Picasso, painter

popularIn the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes

Popular Mechanics magazine mechanics in 1949

Usability and user

If you think that users of your programs are idiots, only idiots will use your programs

Linus Torvalds – "padre" of Linux

The best way to get accurate information on Usenet is sending the wrong thing and wait for corrections

Matthew Austern – Programmer, Google employee

Remember: you’re not stupid, no matter what those books. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, could not design hardware and software usable by normal consumers if their lives depended on it

Walter Mossberg – columnista de The Wall Street Journal

Bill GatesSoftware vendors are trying to make their products more user friendly. Your best approach so far has been to take their old brochures and stamp the words ‘user friendly’ on the cover

Bill Gates – Microsoft Co-Founder

This is what happens to people who think they hate computers. What I really hate is the damn programmers

Larry Niven – science fiction writer

Operating Systems

UNIX is simple. Just take a genius to understand its simplicity

Dennis Ritchie – computer scientist who worked on the development of UNIX

Not really trying to destroy Microsoft, it will be only one unintended side effect

Linus Torvalds – "padre" of Linux

The market for personal computers is dead. Innovation has continued, virtually. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. It’s over. Apple lost. That market has entered the Dark Ages, and will be in the Dark Ages during the next ten years

Steve Jobs – Apple CEO in 2006

Many people still like Solaris, but I’m actively competing with them, and hope to die

Linus Torvalds – "padre" of Linux in 2005

Physics is the operating system of the Universe

Steven R Garman

My name is Linus, and I am your god

Linus Torvalds – "padre" of Linux, Dios Amateur

Technology

The best way to predict the future is to implement

David Heinemeier Hansson Meier – Creador de Ruby on Rails

Bill Gates

"In two years the problem of spam will be solved"

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder in 2004

The problem of viruses is temporary and will last a couple of years

John McAfee – McAfee founder in 1988

Comment the code is like cleaning the bathroom, no one wants to, but the result is always an enjoyable experience for yourself and your guests

Ryan Campbell

Standards are always obsolete. That’s what makes them standards

Alan Bennett

The low level programming is good for the soul of the programmer

John Carmack – co-founder of id Software

Alzheimer Act of programming: if you read code you wrote more than two weeks is as if you see for the first time

Dan Hurvitz

Not document the problem, fix it

Atli Oddsson Bjorgvin – programador

XML is a programming language that notes on a napkin

Charles Simonyi – computer, participated in the creation of the Office suite

PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals

Jon Ribbens – scheduled

BASIC programming is what QWERTY typing

Seymour Papert – artificual research pioneer, creator of the Logo language

The only people who have something to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less

David Emery

Java is the most painful thing that ever happened to computing since MS-DOS

Alan Kay – computer professor at several universities

If Java had a real mechanism for garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution

Robert Sewell

Security

Passwords are like underwear. You can not let anybody see, you change it regularly and you should not share with strangers

Chris Pirillo

Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP server and let the rest of the world replicated.

Linus Torvalds – "padre" of Linux in 1996

The only secure system is one that is off inside a concrete block protected in a sealed room surrounded by armed guards

Gene Spafford – Security Expert

Organizations spend millions of dollars on firewalls and security devices, but throw the money because none of these measures cover the weakest link in security chain: the people who use and manage computers

Kevin Mitnick – the most famous hacker of all time

Hoaxes (hoaxes) circulating on the Internet using the weakness of human beings to ensure its replication and distribution. In other words, use the loopholes of the Human Operating System

Stewart Kirkpatrick

Computer viruses are an urban legend

Peter Norton – creator of Norton Utilities in 1988

Never trust a computer you can not throw out a window

Steve Wozniak – Apple co-founder

If McDonalds were run like a software company, one of every hundred Big Macs would poison you, and the answer is’ We’re sorry, here’sa coupon for two more

Mark Minasi – Technology writer and broadcaster

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