Computer Behavior Quotes

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.