Quote: Wernher von Braun on the Best Computer

• jochen
  December 3rd, 2007 at 4:38 am

  XD
  pwned

• John J.
  December 3rd, 2007 at 6:07 am

  Clever, but untrue. I built a desktop computer without reading a manual or any previous experience.

• roger
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:36 am

  Funny joke, but anything coming from von Braun with the phrases “mass produced” and “unskilled labor” is a little creepy.

• Sid Morrison
  December 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 am

  Roger is dead on here… Whilst von Braun was a brilliant engineer & scientist, his own “labor practices” during the War left a bit to be desired. He and the other Operation Paperclip were *really* lucky that the Cold War immediately followed WWII. Were that not the case, he probably would not have enjoyed the coddling he subsequently received.

• Vonskippy
  December 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm

  @John J: “I built a desktop computer without reading a manual or any previous experience.”

  Clever - but untrue.

  You ASSEMBLED a bunch of pre-engineered, pre-manufactured, pre-tested computer components into a desktop computer (and don’t even get me started about writing the BIOS code and burning that to a EPROM or compiling a boot loader from scratch, or drivers, or a OS, etc, etc.).

• Chris
  December 3rd, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  Clever and true. I have 2 kids.

• L
  December 3rd, 2007 at 10:55 pm

  LOL

• Geoduck
  December 4th, 2007 at 1:55 am

  “Once ze rockets go up, who cares vere zey come down..”

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