Just how powerful are computers today?!?

My computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

Safeguarding code:

The quest to make things foolproof is doomed to failure; fools are ingenious!

Your confidence level:

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Leadership:

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

Coding expertise:

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

The role of Specs people:

The function of a design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

The importance of simple things:

All complex systems that work evolved from simple systems that work.

Where the problem lies:

In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

Overly simple:

If you build a system that even a fool can operate, only a fool will want to use it.

Expected problems:

Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.

The importance of computers:

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

The computing race:

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Caveat:

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.

Stable technology:

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The role of computers in dating:

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.