Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

About Rick Cook

Rick Cook (born 1944) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such...

More quotations tagged with “computers”

The computer is a moron.

—Peter Drucker

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

—Isaac Asimov

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