A Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Computers Computer Frustrating Hardware Manuals Reading Sex Software Without

Quote Author

Arthur C. Clarke
English - Writer
December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

Dave Barry

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Bill Bruford

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.

Diana Gabaldon

This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.

Laura Antoniou

I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.

Kimberley Nixon

When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

Ward Cunningham

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Neil Gaiman

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

David Pogue

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

Mike Ross

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

Dwayne Hickman

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Tamora Pierce

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

Maureen Dowd

If we're going to build hardware, the thing we want to do is build reading goggles, so you can do hands-free reading.

Trip Adler

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.