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Computing and Science

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:25 pm
by Pigeon
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
- Jamie Zawinski, Jargon file entry

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."
—Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming

Re: Computing

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:28 pm
by Pigeon
Garbage In, Garbage Out (abbreviated to GIGO)
-George Fuechsel

Re: Computing and Science

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:36 pm
by Pigeon
"If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way."
-Edward Murphy

Re: Computing and Science

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:28 am
by Royal
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
~Albert Einstein