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(L)users
Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are
divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert.
Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break
their computer.
Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after
they've just pressed a key that broke it.
Expert Users: people who break other people's computers.
— From the Jargon File.

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in
the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got
tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They
want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again,
the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled
and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its
going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of
material, enormous amounts of material." — Senator Ted Stevens (R-
Alaska) explaining how the Internet works (2006).

"Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of

those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each
others' feet." — G. Popek.
"Press CTRL-ALT-DEL now for an IQ test." — (At the time of Win95/98/ME)

"Reading, Pa., county controller Judith Kraines complained at a

commissioners' meeting in January about having to type letters and do other
business on a typewriter because her computer was old and no one had been
able to get it to work for two years. 'If we had a computer', she said,
'letters would go out faster'. Three days later, she announced that the
computer she was complaining about in fact had not been plugged in to any
electrical outlet and that when the plug was inserted and the computer was
turned on, it worked fine." — Elected luser of the year.

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and
contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard
drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the
term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb terminals' will now
be 'CPU-challenged monitors' and 'Unix' will be referred to as 'sexually
dysfunctional operating system'. Obviously, 'fingering' is now banned
entirely." — Kevin Fizz.

"Artificial intelligence ? No thank you, I don't need crutches." — Szylowicz

(my former assembler teacher).

"Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity."

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological

intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having
achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe." — Epine.

"If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."
— Arno Penzias.

"1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15, y0u r34||y n33d 70 637 |41d."

"This manual says what our product actually does, no matter what the
salesman may have told you it does." — In a californian graphic board
manual, 1985.

"I sit looking at this damn computer screen all day long, day in and day out,
week after week, and think: Man, if I could just find the 'on' switch..."
— Zachary Good.
"Smith & Wesson — the original point and click interface."

"They say one of a baby's first non-verbal forms communication is pointing.

Clicking must be somewhere just after that."

"Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools." — Gene
Brown.

"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

"Remember, the problem is not that people are stupid; the problem is that
modems are cheap." — Vince Sabio.

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid

users ?"

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly

tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it.
In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone
switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington,
the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a
telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-
magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the
ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present,
obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer." — John R Searls.

"There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world — one just has
to be open to seeing it. Remember that the next time you sneeze on your
monitor." — Nathan Walton.

Login: yes
Password: i dont have one
password is incorrect

Login: yes
Password: incorrect
"On the negative side, I've been getting charged for a ton of stuff I didn't
order lately. On the positive side, I did win that 'Who's Got the Best
Password' contest on AOL last week." — Spike Donner.

"Making fun of AOL users is like making fun of the kid in the wheel chair."

"I can only imagine the deprivation and loneliness you will feel from a lack
of human companionship when your 1000 free AOL hours run out." — Nate
B.

"It's like being a doctor, but without getting my paws all gooky."
— Dogbert the Network Administrator.

"Morons. These people who live in my apartment complex are connected to

my wireless. They must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my
completely unsecure network. Unfortunatly, the connection works both
ways. Long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their
computer." — Mootar from bash.org.

"MMORPG players are freaks. If I ever have kids, and I catch them doing
anything with a computer except for normal stuff like porn and hacking into
school to change their grades, I will beat their asses like a red headed step
child." — CF.

"I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper

where you get points for blowing up on your first move." — James Lileks.

"I went to a gentleman's cybercafe — and they offered me a 'laptop dance'."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

Helpdesk: Double click on "My Computer"

User: I can't see your computer.
Helpdesk: No, double click on "My Computer" on your computer.
User: Huh?
Helpdesk: There is an icon on your computer labeled "My Computer". Double
click on it.
User: What's your computer doing on mine?
"It took me many years but I have gained access to the root account and
have removed the user God." — Saros (Jeff Batten).

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and
vice versa." — Alan J. Perlis.

"Dude, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm afraid you've been
hacked — the FTP server at 127.0.0.1 has all your personal files. See for
yourself; just log in with your normal id...." — Classic joke on new Unix
users.

"Note to self: www.manpages.com is NOT an online resource to get *nix man

pages'" — Techdeck.

"I went to the gf's work last week, they had no antivirus. 279 viruses. The
best part was they showed me their backup strategy: they use custom
software and they backed up the application by dragging the desktop icon (a
shortcut) to their cdrw. They had 2 years worth of shortcuts."
— gweebz0r.

"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view
or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as
an exercise for your kill-file." — Bertil Jonell.

"Gentlemen, I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie
than believe that stones fall from heaven." — Thomas Jefferson.

"Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my
desktop..." — billiam.
"Relax, its only ONES and ZEROS !"

"Qrpelcgvat ebg13 ivbyngrf gur QZPN! Cercner gb or fhrq!!"

"Who were the beta testers for Preparations A through G ?" — Bumper
Sticker.

"If it's there and you can see it — it's real.

If it's not there and you can see it — it's virtual.
If it's there and you can't see it — it's transparent.
If it's not there and you can't see it — you erased it !"

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"I have NOT lost my mind — I have it backed up on tape somewhere."

"What do you mean by 'RAM DISK is not an installation procedure' ?"

"'INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

"Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk ?"

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean ?"

"See daddy ? All the keys are in alphabetical order now."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage
message."

"If you can't beat your computer at chess, do what I did — try kick-boxing."
— Matt Larson.

"rm -rf /bin/laden"

"No printing is permitted of this book.

This book cannot be given to someone else.
This book cannot be read aloud." — License terms for Adobe ebooks.

"Ban cryptography ! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since
criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they are casing or even,
god forbid, create one time pads to pass uncrackable codes to each other.
Ban open spaces since criminals could use them to converse with each other
out of earshot of the police. Let's ban flags since they could be used to pass
secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's just ban all forms of verbal and
non-verbal communication — let's see those criminals make plans now !"

"Cryptanalysis is the study of turning other peoples' harmless mistakes into

catastrophic errors."

"Cracking the Italian codes was something you did at the pub over a beer. It
was both relaxing and enjoyable..." — Peter Hilton, WW2 British
codebreaker.

"Phase 1: Uncritical acceptance.

Phase 2: Wild enthusiasm.
Phase 3: Dejected disillusionment.
Phase 4: Total confusion.
Phase 5: Search for the guilty.
Phase 6: Punishment of the innocent.
Phase 7: Promotion of nonparticipants." — Harsh Reality of IT Project Life
Cycle.

"Q: What is the difference between a computer and a woman ?

A: A woman won't accept a 3 and 1/2-inch floppy !"

"I don't care if you ARE getting a PhD in it ! Get away from that damn
computer and go find a woman !" — Paul Tyma's dad.

"If some unemployed punk in New Jersey can get a cassette to make love to
Elle McPherson for $19.95 this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack
look like Sanka !" — Dennis Miller.

"When I was a teenager, Mom said I'd go blind if I didn't quit doing *that*.
Maybe she was right — since the invention of internet porn, computer
monitors keep getting bigger and bigger. !" — Bill Ervin.

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"Internet Explorer Tip: when it says 'turn off images', it only refers to inline
images. Which is why it's safe to go to Goatse but not Tubgirl. I think it's
obvious how I figured this out." — Bivens.

"Broadband sucks in the sense that goatse loads before i can close the
window..." — Ich.

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

"Those who can't write programs, write help files."

"Smash forehead on keyboard to continue..."

"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..."

"The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS !"

"Jesus saves... So why the fuck didn't I ?"

"Yeah, Jesus tried to save me, but there was no space left on his memory
card." — arucardegungrave.

"Yo moma is such a whore, if she was a chmod she'd be 777 because
everyone has access..."

"Yo moma is like HTML: Tiny head, huge body."

"I tried setting my hotmail password to penis. It said my password wasn't

long enough. :(" — Raven.

"Technology is always first developed for one of four things:

The Military

Sexual Urges
Easy Money

Security (making sure the above services are properly paid for).

If we can't have sex with it, blow it up, or make loads of cash off of it, we're
just not interested." — tcd004.

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor
with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary." — Juuso
Heimonen.

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my

PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the
inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA, which beams it back to the
cellular. Then I realized my gadgets have a better social life than I do !"
— Tom Ostad.

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I
could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun." — LeMel
Hebert-Williams.

"We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks
come out with WipeMe 1.0." — Andy Pierson.

"I don't understand why cheerleaders won't talk to me. Maybe I don't throw
five touchdowns against Newport High, but let's see one of those football
morons program in assembly language. !" — Chris Lipe.

"She said she was hot for me, so i gave her a spare heatsink. She didn't seem
happy. I just dont understand women." — MrRoboto1024.

"Procter & Gamble, for example, uses an SGI system to study the
aerodynamics of Pringle's potato chips. !" — From a ZDnet article.

"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more user-
friendly... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old
brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover." — Bill
Gates.
"Remember when...? A computer was something on TV from a science fiction
show. A window was something you hated to clean and RAM was the cousin
of a goat... Meg was the name of my girlfriend and gig was your middle
finger upright. Now they all mean different things and that really mega
bytes. An application was for employment. A program was a TV show. A
cursor used profanity. A keyboard was a piano. Memory was something that
you lost with age. A CD was a bank account. And if you had a 3 1/2" floppy
you hoped that nobody found out. Compress was something you did to the
garbage not something you did to a file. And if you unzipped anything in
public you'd be in jail for awhile. Log on was adding wood to the fire. Hard
drive was a long trip on the road. A mouse pad was where a mouse lived and
a backup happened to your commode. Cut you did with a pocket knife.
Paste you did with glue. A web was a spider's home and a virus was the flu. I
guess I'll stick to my pad and paper and the memory in my head. I hear
nobody's been killed in a computer crash but when it happens they wish they
were dead !"

"The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is
quite simple: if this system was a person, how long would it take before you
punched it in the nose ?" — Tom Carey.

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast
as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have
equal value." — Carl Sagan.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a

means of communication." — Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." — Lord Kelvin,

president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." — Charles H. Duell,

Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones
they made a hundred years ago." — Henry Ford, while visiting a
museum.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." — Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18 000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1½ tons." — Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the
best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't
last out the year." — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice
Hall, 1957.

"But what... is it good for ?" — An engineer at the Advanced Computing

Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." — Ken

Olson, president/founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There

is no evidence that people want to use these things. What businessman
knows about point sizes on typefaces or the value of variable point sizes ?
Who out there in the general marketplace even knows what a 'font' is ?
The whole concept and attitude towards icons and hieroglyphs is actually
counterrevolutionary — it's a language that is hardly 'user friendly'. This type
of machine was developed by hardware hackers working out of Xerox's Palo
Alto Research Center. It has yet to find popular success. There seems to be
some mysterious user resistance to this type of machine." — John C.
Dvorak on why the Macintosh would fail, San Francisco Examiner,
1984/02/19.
"The Mac finder really puts the 'stupid' in 'Keep It Simple, Stupid'."

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a
wood chipper."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"A Mac vs. PC commercial you'll never see: 'Whatcha doin, PC?' 'I'm playing
this new game'. 'Oh really, which one?' 'Any'. 'Oh'. (silence) (fade)."
— ez76.

"I want to see the Korean girl who works at the iPhone factory v. the Zune
tattoo guy." — MdHatter about Apple commercials.

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American
public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." — Jack
Valenti, MPAA president, testimony to the House of Representatives, 1982.

"Wanted: Expert Java programmers, 5+ years experience." — Posted in

1998.
"Blink your eyelids periodically to lubricate your eyes." — Page 16 of the
HP "Environmental, Health Safety Handbook for Employees".

"Maintenance Contractors always dress up nice, with a tie and everything

because they believe that a customer will trust a nicely dressed guy with
their million dollar equipment just because he's got a nice tie..." —
Simon Travaglia (the B.O.F.H.).

"What were once minuscule workplace annoyances are now major priority
issues. Like noisy fans and power supplies ! ANYONE who complains about a
noisy fan or power supply needs to spend a week or two in the presence of a
PUNCH CARD machine. Three weeks later, when they recover their sanity,
give them their old computer back. See if they complain. I THINK NOT !"
— Simon Travaglia (the B.O.F.H.).

"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off,

deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings
to the IRS." — The B.O.F.H..

"In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job
will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the
dog bites him." — Scott Adams (author of Dilbert).

"I will write on a huge cement block 'BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH
YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL
LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY
ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING.' And
then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer and run like hell."
— DmncAtrny.

"Whenever my Boss pisses me off, I secretly change the password to his e-

mail account.
When he can't log on, he'll piss and moan for 5 minutes, cursing the
computer. Then he'll come groveling to me for my help. Once he's groveled
enough, I re-enter the right password from my office, go to his and watch
him look like a dummy while I log-on easily.
I just love it. Heh, heh, heh."
Men think that computers should be referred to as female, just like ships,
because:

No one but their creator understands their internal logic.

The language in which they communicate among themselves is

incomprehensible to everyone else.

The message "Bad command or File Name" is about as informative as "if you
don't know why I'm mad at you, I'm certainly not going to tell you !"

Your smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval.

As soon as you make a commitment to one, you spend half your paycheck on
accessories for it.

Miss a period and they go wild.

You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.

Women think computers are male because:

They have lots of data, but are still clueless.

They are supposed to solve problems, but half the time they ARE the
problem.

As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had only waited a bit
longer, you could have had a better model.

To get their attention, you have to "turn them on".

A big "power-surge" will knock them out for the rest of the night !

It is always necessary to have a backup.

They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.

Size does matter.

Internet
"Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with
interstices between the intersections." — Samuel Johnson, Dictionary
of the English Language (1755).

"The Internet ? Is that thing still around ?" — Homer Simpson.

"ASCII and ye shall receive."

"Will the information superhighway have any rest stops ?"

"I get mail, therefore I am." — Scott Adams.

"In fact, you can throw away the last three syllables of 'superhighway'. It's a
soup. Call it Information Soup and we're getting somewhere." — Charles S.
Murray.

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of

light." — Jerry Vuoso.

"Plonk /excl./: The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill
file." — From the Jargon File.

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI
agents."

"Usenet is a Mobius strand of spaghetti." — James "Kibo" Parry.

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

— Official Iraqi government statement.
"I had to google 'jfgi' to see what it meant. The irony is overwhelming."
— classyhorse23.

"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million

typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare." — Blair Houghton.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John
Gilmore.

"What's a net Nazi ? That's what's left after you deduct the wholesale price
and overhead from a gross Nazi." — Rich Tietjens.

"Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post
something wrong and wait for corrections." — Matthew Austern.

"I was having trouble getting screen dumps in unix so I went into #unix and
said 'Does anyone know how to do a screen dump in unix?' 5 minutes and no
reply, so I modify it a bit 'Two hot girls are stripping on webcam for me,
how do i take a picture to show you guys ?' 13 offers of assistance within 2
minutes. Brilliant." — Numi.

"If you're having trouble sounding condescendent, get a Unix user to show
you how." — Scott Adams.

"In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country
adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of
the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for
a Nobel peace prize." — Mark Atkinson.

"IRC is just multiplayer notepad."

"If the Internet is a superhighway, then AOL must be a fleet of farm

equipment that straddles five lanes and pays no heed to 'Keep Right Except
to Pass' signs." — Marko Peric.

"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea; massive,

difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-
boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." — Eugene
Spafford.
"IRC is like one giant round of intellectual bukake." — Hatamoto.

"I see ads saying that I can 'GET PAID to Surf the Web !'. Let's see... I'm at
work checking out my favorite porn sites right now. Hey, I'm already getting
paid to surf the web !" — Bill Ervin Tigard

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else,
there's Google."

"Once you've googled every single guy whose last name you remember that
you slept with, the internet sorta becomes a useless tool." — From Craig's
list.

"Looking at the 2001 Google Zeitgeist, I see disturbing trends:

Top women searches: Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez,
Madonna & Aaliyah.
And top men searches: Nostradamus, Bin Laden, Eminem, Michael Jackson &
Howard Stern." — jonr.

"The web is a dominatrix. Every where I turn, I see little buttons ordering
me to Submit." — Nytwind.

"Sell a man a phish he can scam for a day, but teach him how to phish and
he can scam for himself for a lifetime."

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers
who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we
live." — Peter Cochrane.

"To ruin the net to save Disney is the equivalent of burning down the library
of Alexandria to save monastic scribes."

"The smiley is an attack on writers and readers alike. If it is funny, it doesn't

need a smiley. If is not funny, a smiley won't help it. The smiley teaches
writers that anything they write will pass as humor as long as it is
punctuated properly. It teaches readers that they must ignore their better
judgment, and look only at punctuation to determine intent." — Jim
Showalter.

"Computer security." — Oxymoron

"Those willing to give up a little security by using a little obscurity deserve
neither security nor root privileges." — B. F.

"Every operating system out there is about equal... We all suck."

— Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of
the art in OS security, 2003.

"The only truly secure computer is one buried in concrete, with the power
turned off and the network cable cut."

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pickup full of magnetic tapes."

"hURL /n/ a link to a web site that makes you want to puke." — Cathie
Walker.

"2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push !"

"My computer's sick. I think my modem is a carrier."

"Old lie — The check is in the mail.

New lie — I didn't check the e-mail." — Brian Fine.

"CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh.."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn
numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then
we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World
Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure." — Douglas Adams (1952—
2001)

Take a look at the information superhighway humor page.

Microsoft/Intel Bashing
"Vista is a fatass riced-out American SUV with flat tires and the brakes stuck
halfway on. Dump that POS and try again." — GameboyRMH.

"Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would
be nervous if my system was built on their technology too." — Scott
McNealy.

"Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a

road apple [horse poop]." — Scott McNealy.

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like
saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." — Bill Gates, 1981.

"[A]bort, [R]etry, [I]gnore, [F]ail ?" — Does Bill Gates know the answer ?
"Southern DOS: Y'all reckon? Yep/Nope"

"Windows: From the people who brought you EDLIN !"

"Win95 not found, [P]arty, [C]elebrate, [D]rink ?"

"Windows 95 /n./ 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch
to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor,
written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."

"I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth
time today ?" — Mirabour Gilbride.

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages.
Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."
— Alluvium.

"English, the Microsoft of languages..."

"Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to
take effect. Reboot now ? [OK]"

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"WinNT: supports Plug'n Play devices, just not Plug 'n Play..."

"DOS never says 'EXCELLENT command or filename'."

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way." — Henry Spencer.

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen

appliances would sneer at." — Dave Trowbridge, Computer Technology
Review, Aug 90.

"It's been said that Bill Gates named his company after his dick..."

"DOS: No serial number required.

95/98/SE: To cut down on casual piracy, enter this serial number.
Win2K: Since that didn't work, it might phone home unless you ask nicely
that it not phone home.
XP: Since that didn't work, it won't activate until you let it phone home.
Don't worry, we won't nuke existing installations.
Vista: Since that didn't work, we'll nuke any box that stops phoning."

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ?

— Neither did I."

"Letting XP run for more than a month is like re-using a condom 50 or 60

times. Theoretically it can work, but is sick and ill advised."

"I can't use Windows. My cat ate my mouse."

"Restart, Reboot, Reinstall." — The three Rs to windows tech support.

"If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft."

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

— Microsoft executive Martin Taylor.

"Microsoft: Where do you want to go today ?

Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow ?
BSD/OS-X: Are you guys coming or what ?!?"
"We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."
— Bumper sticker.

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !" — Bumper sticker.

"If you don't know where you want to go, we will make sure you get there."
— Microsoft slogan translated in Japanese.

"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?"
— Dino Esposito.

"I think MS named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing."

— Oktal.

"I like women the way I like my filesystem: FAT and 16." — DevilsX.

"I like my web servers just like my women... insecure and full of holes
waiting to be exploited." — B. G.
"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody
is the 'most reliable Windows ever'. To me, this is like saying that asparagus
is 'the most articulate vegetable ever'." — Dave Barry

"Is OS/2 only half an operating system ?"

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."
— Jean-Louis Gassee.

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

— Erik Naggum.

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft

building progress by weight." — Bill Gates.

"The only people who have anything to fear from free software (such as
GNAT) are those whose products are worth even less." — David Emery.

"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and

to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went
to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings
of their operating system." — Bill Gates.

"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can

usually be traced to an organization." — Jon Bentley.

"What does the Start button do — isn't the computer already running ?"
— A Win95 user.

"Why should I press the Start button to turn the computer off ?" — A Win95
user.

"Windows95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush." — Andy G.

Ihnatko.

"People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me
up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part
of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man
cry'."
"In Microsoft's case: RC = Alpha, Release = Beta, Service Pack 1 = RC, Service
Pack 2 = Release." — Maldivia.

"Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by

definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days."

"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a
nickel for every time a PC reboots'."

"Microsoft Works." — Oxymoron

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I
said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"Mac users swear by their Mac,

PC users swear at their PC."

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label." — Jim Hopper.

"Intel: We put the 'um...' in Pentium."

"'Intel Inside' is a Government Warning required by Law."

"The Pentium III: It's Hitler Inside !"

"Q: What's the advantage of having Bill Gates and the Pope in the same
city ?
A: So that the Pope can talk directly to God."

"Q: How many Ms programmers does it take to change a light bulb ?

A: 2,304. One to write WinCheckLightBulbStatus, one to write
WinGripLightBulb..."

"Q: How many Bill Gates does it take to change a lightbulb ?

A: None, he just defines Darkness™ as the new industry standard..."

Customer: "I'm running Windows '98"

Tech: "Yes."
Customer: "My computer isn't working now."
Tech: "Yes, you said that."
"People who think MS-DOS & Windows are the slickest thing since sliced
butter should be forced to wear a sign stating 'This mind intentionally left
blank'."

"Print out the EULA, strike the offending paragraphs out, have it notarized,
send a copy in a certified letter to Microsoft with a note saying that their
signature (on delivery of letter) is acceptance of the amended terms. End of
story." — BlueUnderwear.

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"Windows: Just another pain in the glass."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open
windows."

"When the grammar checker identifies an error, it suggests a correction and

can even makes some changes for you." — Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0
User's Guide.

"Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of

Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and
crashes spectacularly..."

"Microsoft is trying to add some humor to it's error messages in Windows

2000. Here are a couple of examples:
— Printer not responding: Got a pen and paper handy ?
— Three things are certain in life: Taxes, death, and data loss. Guess which
has just occurred ?"

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a

tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"Our most reliable OS yet !"*

(* Based on total crashes since OS release) — Microsoft disclaimer about
WinXP.
"For us Windows users, reports of new security issues seem to come as often
as potholes on an Arkansas highway. Like the potholes, looking for the next
one isn't all that interesting or entertaining, but we still have to try to avoid
them or at least minimize their impact."

"Heard of the new version of Windows from MS ? It is called CEMENT —

CE+ME+NT"

"These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play
Secure Content and use other software on your computer." — From the
EULA of a 'security update' to Windows Media Player. In other words the
scariest thing I've ever read.

"All I ever wanted was to see Larry Wall give Bill Gates a Perl necklace."