Oh, man. I have tons of computer related quotes. Ah yes...
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You know you've spent too much time on the computer when you spill milk and the first thing you think is, 'edit, undo.'
Technical support is how much a minute? Only one other industry charges $3.99 a minute to talk to you, and at least you get some degree of pleasure out of that!
Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
Sleep: A completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
Programmers never die: They just GOSUB without RETURN.
C Programmers do it recursively.
"Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention." - Larry Wall
I have yet to meet a C compiler that is more friendly and easier to use than eating soup with a knife.
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
"If the Start Windows Restart when Windows starts check box is checked Windows Restart will start automatically every time Windows is started." - Actual excerpt from a windows program help file!
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 'Stumpy' Stroustrup
665.9238429876 - Number of the Pentium Beast
Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!)
Computer Science: solving today's problems tomorrow
Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.
RTFM: Not just an acronym, it's the LAW!
Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.
'The Geek shall inherit the earth.' - Linus 5:5
A program is a device used to convert data into error messages.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
A computer scientist is someone who, when told to 'Go to Hell', sees the 'go to', rather than the destination, as harmful.
A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder
My operat~1 system unders~1 long filena~1 , does yours?
Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging Windows.
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
BTW, FWIW, IMHO, AFAIK, yes. OTOH, AAMOF, maybe not. YMMV.
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. - Gene Spafford,1992
Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.
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.
Don't make me use uppercase...
There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true.
Someday I'll find that peer and reset his connection!
Claiming that your operating system is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world.
Unix is user friendly - it's just picky about it's friends.
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a minute - he already does.
I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files... I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them... I have a computer to do all that... I have a Macintosh.
A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.
Name one nice thing about Windows? It doesn't just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.
"Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity." - Dennis Ritchie
"Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX." - Tom Christiansen
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson
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I've got many more non-computer related ones, if you'd like.
