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Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle ("Computer Language," Oct 90)

(A)bort (R)etry (T)oss computer across room?

Guru, n: A computer owner who can read the manual.

Real Programmers never work from 9 to 5. If any real programmer is around at 9 a.m., it's because they were up all night.
-- Some computer geek

You can tell how far we have to go when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner

“I speak two languages: Body and English.”
-- Mae West

C++, the language in which only friends can access your private members.

We think in language, therefore the quality of our thoughts can only ever be as good as the quality of our language.
-- George Carlin

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.
(Computer Museum (Boston))

"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense."
-- Benjamin Franklin

Computers save man a lot of guesswork, but then, so do bikini's.

Computer Science without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
-- Larry Wall

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
-- Max Weinreich

Murphy's Eleventh Law of Computing:
A computer program will follow your orders, but rarely your intentions.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-- Steve Wozniak

"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.

[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin

On-line, adj: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
-- Marilyn Pittman

To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
(Farmer's Almanac for 1978)

"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."
-- Steve Witham

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.

There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
-- Deteriorata (from the National Lampoon Radio Dinner album)

BASIC, n.:
A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
-- Douglas Adams

Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
-- Mitch Radcliffe

We may begin to see reality differently simply because the computer ... provides a different angle on reality.
-- Heinz Pagels

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-- James D. Nicoll

To some extent any use of language (and conceptual categories) distorts reality by coercing instances into types.
-- Rob Bernardo

Well, there's a quantum computer that can factor [the number] 15, so those of you using 4-bit RSA should worry.
-- Bruce Schneier