Ocupation: Author
Life: b. December 8, 1951
Birthday: December 8
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
source: "Notes from a Big Country" / "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", Book by Bill Bryson, 1998.
topic: Stupid, Smart, Technology, Stupid Things, Programmers, Perfect Match, Computer Programmers, Computer Programming, Programming Funny, Smart People