Quote: Jef Raskin on Exploding Shoes and Computers

By Alex in Quote-a-Day, Science & Tech on May 16, 2008 at 12:50 am

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

– Jef Raskin, computer scientist (started the Macintosh project for Apple)


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  1. Commentor
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    Computers perform millions of operations per second. Flawlessly. For (let’s say) days. That’s an astonishingly high level quality of performance.

  2. Tara
    May 16th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    I don’t really get it.

  3. Thomas
    May 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am

    Maybe yours works flawlessly, I’m about to reinstall windows because it’s decided to eat itself.

  4. bean
    May 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    My computer has never exploded.

  5. Ola Amigo
    May 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    I don’t put computers on my feet. I’m pretty sure that’s his problem.


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