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Apropos to nothing and everything:
My view of Microsoft is that they had two goals in the last 10
years: to copy the Macintosh and to copy Lotus' success in the
applications business. And they accomplished those goals. Now,
they're kind of lost.
- Steve Jobs
We are the salvation of the world. If you market the tools for
salvation, you have to be incompetent not to make money.
- Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel
Data is flying around, across and through your systems at speeds
the Jetsons could appreciate, but has any of this technology let
you go home one minute early? I doubt it.
- Richard Santalesa
Programmers often neglect proper consideration of the weak link
in the software: the person who will be using it.
- Leonard Lee
We fear what we do not understand, and so ordinary people fear
computers more than they fear filing cabinets.
- F.J.M. Laver
Word cannot edit the unknown.
- Wise error message from Word 6.0
Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond
records . . .
- Hamlet, experiencing a system crash in 1603
A fine calculation you are making! It is plain you don't know
the ins and outs of the printers . . . .
- Don Quixote, dealing with an early interfacing problem, as
quoted by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
We know that the most advanced computer in the world does not
have a brain as sophisticated as that of an ant. True, we could say
that of many of our relatives, but we only have to put up with them
at weddings or special occasions.
- Woody Allen
and some good news:
With computers getting more popular and complex, industry
experts predict a growing need for computer nerds. In fact, one
industry group forecasts a nerd gap in the coming years as demand
outstrips supply.
- James McIntyre
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These all are jokes that we've had the good fortune of having other people email to us or we've retrieved off the Internet. Over time, we've sent them on to the subscribers of our various jokes lists. Since we're talking some ten years of managing these emails lists, we've built up a pretty sizeable (and FUNNY) collection of jokes. They cover pretty much any category and topic that you can imagine; from clean jokes to dirty jokes and most everything in between, including the much loved lawyer jokes and the blonde jokes and the yo mama jokes as well as those redneck jokes. Remember, we did NOT author them, but we did take the time to convert the text files to html.
If you are certain of the authorship of any of these, email us the author's name along with relevant information on how we can verify that they truly are the author so we can give them the credit that they deserve.
We've all heard the stories. Stories about innocently searching the internet with Internet Explorer when, all of a sudden, all the alarms are going off with your virus scanner. Programs are installing themselves. Warnings about Smitfraud-C, SpyAxe, and Vcodec are popping up on your screen.
And some of us have had firsthand experience. Firsthand experience that has led us away from IE and to other browsers like Firefox.
And why is that? Well, virus writers are generally going to be trying to get the most bang for their buck, ,just like everyone else. That's why. And IE currently provides them with that. It still has the largest market share, likely due in large part that it comes preinstalled on most computers.
But just because it's preinstalled doesn't mean you have to use it and expose yourself to all the spyware and virii targetted to it. You can do what an ever growing portion of users out there are doing. You can switch to
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