R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! (C3PO) The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. (Seymour Cray) Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. (Jeff Pesis) Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn’t work”. (Anonymous)

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! (C3PO) You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. (Bertrand Meyer) If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. (Robert X. Cringely)