I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up, you'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
I'm a little bit computer illiterate.
Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to change a monitor between portrait and landscape modes.
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
We don't think that any one hardware platform can meet everybody's needs and we provide multiple platforms for that reason.
Everything is relative, is the Internet fast.Not for most people. Is it always on, yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.
We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.
After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
We really need it because Microsoft keeps releasing sloppier and sloppier software that needs a faster and faster machine, the speed is crazy.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Murphy's computers laws: When designing a program to handle all possible dumb errors, nature creates a dumber user.
Murphy's computers laws: You only receive instant messaging, when working on a project that's due instantly.
Murphy's computers laws: The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string.
Murphy's computers laws: The most frightening of viruses is the virus you do not know is already there.
Murphy's computers laws: Antivirus systems only effectively work on a virus after given virus has passed its prime.
Murphy's computers laws: The survivability of a system is directly proportional to the price of the cooling system applied to it and inversely proportional to the amount of use it sees.
Murphy's computers laws: The sound of grinding metal or the sight of smoke coming from a case is a warning that you are trying to do too much with too little.