Computer Quote by Larry Wall Download Open image “Besides, REAL computers have a rename system call.” — Larry Wall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computers Real
I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.' — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Some computers are almost human. When they make a mistake they put the blame on another computer. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these… — David Carson Copy Share Image
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
