computation quotes

A bad sector disk error occurs only after you've done several hours of work without performing a backup.
-- Dr. Caligari's Come-Back

As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power fails.
-- Wood's Axiom

The higher the "higher-ups" are who have come to see your demo, the lower your chances are of giving a successful one
-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n°4

If there is ever the possibility of several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n°5

No matter how large and standard the marketplace is, IBM can redefine it
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°5

A program generator creates programs that are more buggy than the program generator
-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n°3

Inside every complex and unworkable program is a useful routine stuggling to be free
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°7

The solution to a problem changes the problem
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°6

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed
-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n°4

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°1

A bad sector disk error or a head crash occurs only after you've done several hours of work without making a backup
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°4

Every task takes twice as long as you think it will take
-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n°5

The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent
-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n°2

When all else fails, read the instructions
-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n°6

There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over
-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n°4

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization
-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n°11

An expert is the person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy
-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n°1

After months of training and you finally understand all of a programs commands, a revised version arrives with an all new command structure
-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n°1

There is always one item on the screen menu that is mislabeled and should read : "ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE"
-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n°3

In any human endeavor, once you've exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else
-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n°5