Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Quotes on Computer ....

Here are few things for musing  frm amby ....

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup


"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - CAR Hoare

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.

"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." - Seymoure Cray

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." -- Dennis Ritchie.

and here's some thing to muse about ...

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."  --- Pablo Picasso.
 

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