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In All Large Corporations, There Is A Pervasive Fear That Someone, Somewhere Is Having Fun With A Computer On Company Time. Networks Help Alleviate That Fear. ~ John C. Dvorak 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. ~ Jeff Meye My Computer Beat Me At Checkers, But I Sure Beat It At Kickboxing. ~ Emo Phillips The Computer Programmer Is A Creator Of Universes For Which He Alone Is Responsible. Universes Of Virtually Unlimited Complexity Can Be Created In The Form Of Computer Programs. ~ Joseph Weizenbaum Why Is It Drug Addicts And Computer Afficionados Are Both Called Users? ~ Clifford Stoll There Is No Reason Anyone Would Want A Computer In Their Home. ~ Ken Olson
To Err Is Human--and To Blame It On A Computer Is Even More So. ~ Robert Orben I Have A Cat Named Trash. In The Current Political Climate It Would Seem That If I Were Trying To Sell Him At Least To A Computer Scientist, I Would Not Stress That He Is Gentle To Humans And Is Self-sufficient, Living Mostly On Field Mice. Rather, I Would Argue That He Is Object-oriented. ~ Roger King
A Computer Terminal Is Not Some Clunky Old Television With A Typewriter In Front Of It. It Is An Interface Where The Mind And Body Can Connect With The Universe And Move Bits Of It About. From Mostly Harmless. ~ Douglas Noel Adams As Far As We Know, Our Computer Has Never Had An Undetected Error. ~ Weisert I Think That Their Flight From And Hatred Of Technology Is Self-defeating. The Buddha Rests Quite As Comfortably In The Circuits Of A Digital Computer Of The Gears Of A Cycle Transmission As He Does At The Top Of A Mountain Or In The Petals Of A Flower. To Think Otherwise Is To Demean The Buddha--which Is To Demean Oneself. ~ Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" A Computer Lets You Make More Mistakes Faster Than Any Invention In Human History - With The Possible Exceptions Of Handguns And Tequila. ~ Mitch Ratliffe
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