Here's a few other comments I've heard...enjoy!
? Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a
new car.
? Occasionally your car would die on a motorway for no reason, and you'd
have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this
and drive on.
? Occasionally your car would stop and fail to restart, and you'd have
to re-install the engine. For some strange reason you'd just accept
this too.
? You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought
a Car95 or a CarNT. But then you'd have to buy more seats.
? Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as
fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 50f the roads.
? The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades for
their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
? The oil, engine, petrol and alternator warning lights would be
replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
? The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off.
? If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
? When the car started to splutter, the driver would switch off the
engine, all the passengers would have to get out, slam all the doors,
wait 3 minutes and then climb back in again.
Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 24/07/99 22:51:33
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Subject: Re: [OM] OT - Windows and dates.
>From: "W. J. Liles" <wliles@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Two quotes that help me keep perspective on computers:
>
> 1) "To err is human but to really screw things up use a computer."
>
> 2) "If architects designed buildings like programers wrote programs
>the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization."
My favorite was a heckler at a Bill Gates talk. Mr. Bill was waxing
rhapsodic on how wonderful the computer industry was, and said
something like, "If the auto industry had progressed like the
computer industry, we'd have cars that cost $2,000, go 1,000 miles
per hour, and get 500 miles to the gallon!"
A heckler then shouted, "Yea, but they'd crash three times a day!"
: Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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