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Computing and Science

Post by Pigeon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:25 pm

"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

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Re: Computing

Post by Pigeon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:28 pm

Garbage In, Garbage Out (abbreviated to GIGO)
-George Fuechsel

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Re: Computing and Science

Post by Pigeon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:36 pm

"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

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Re: Computing and Science

Post by Royal » Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:28 am

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "
~Albert Einstein

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