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The assignments are intended for students. You will be offered sayings that are proverbs and sayings, the meaning of which has been changed, so to speak, in a computer way. Name these proverbs and sayings.
1. Computer science is always useful to study. (Learning to read and write is always useful.)
2. When the computer is being serviced by 7 technicians, the monitor does not work. (Too many cooks spoil the broth.)
3. You can’t ruin a computer with memory. (You can’t spoil porridge with oil.)
4. Tell me what kind of computer you have and I will tell you who you are. (Tell me who your friend is and I'll tell you who you are.)
5. There is nothing to blame for the monitor if the video card is crooked. (There is nothing to blame for the mirror if the face is crooked.)
6. Saves a bit of a kilobyte. (A penny saves the ruble.)
7. Seven troubles - one “Reset”. (Seven troubles - one answer.)
8. The system unit of a donated computer is not looked into. (They do not look at a given horse's teeth.)
9. People don’t go to Silicon Valley with their own computer. (They don’t go to Tula with their own samovar.)
10. It is not the identifier that colors the file, but the file identifier. (It is not the place that makes the man, but the man the place.)
11. END - the program ends. (The end is the crown of the whole thing.)
12. A highly qualified programmer's program is afraid. (The master's work is afraid.)
13. What is printed by a printer cannot be removed with a knife. (What is written with a pen cannot be cut out with an axe.)
14. Even an experienced programmer makes mistakes. (And the old woman gets screwed.)
15. If you like to play computer games, you also like to program. (If you like to ride, you also like to carry sleds.)
16. Interest in a program comes during its development. (Appetite comes with eating.)
17. Where programs are developed, there are errors. (Where the forest is cut down, chips fly.)
18. If you develop two programs at the same time, neither will be successful. (If you chase two hares, you won’t catch either.)
19. Rely on the debugger, but try not to make mistakes yourself. (Trust in God, but don’t make a mistake yourself.)
20. One small mistake ruins the entire program. (Rotten apple injures its neighbors.)
21. There is no trial on NOT. (No, and no trial.)
22. Not only experienced programmers develop programs. (It’s not the gods who burn the pots.)
23. The task is not as scary as it seems. (The devil is not as scary as he is painted.)
24. Don’t boast when you start developing a program, but boast when you finish it. (Do not boast when you go to the army, but boast when you leave the army.)
25. It’s good to use a friend’s computer, but it’s better to use your home computer. (Being a guest is good, but being at home is better.)
26. There is no such thing as an incorrect result of a program without a reason. (There is no smoke without fire.)
27. If I knew where I was wrong in the program, I would be doubly careful. (If I had known where I would fall, I would have spread some straw.)
28. You can’t delete a fragment from the program. (You can’t erase a word from a song.)
29. Every programmer praises his programming system. (Each hen praises her roost.)
30. Bad trouble - BEGIN. (Down and Out trouble started.)
31. The first launch of the program is always unsuccessful. (The first pancake is always lumpy.)
32. A bad programmer is one who does not hope to become Bill Gates. (A bad soldier is one who does not hope to be a general.)
33. A true statement is unpleasant to perceive. (The truth hurts my eyes.)
34. A programmer always recognizes a programmer. (Birds of a feather flock together.)
35. Either there are a lot of comments on the program, or there are none at all. (Sometimes it’s thick, sometimes it’s empty (then there’s nothing).)
36. A bit is one or zero. (Grandma said in two.)
37. A little bit can be important. (Small spool but precious.)
38. Think seven times before deleting a file. (Seven times measure cut once.)
39. The programming language I know is my friend. (My tongue is my enemy.)
40. Trust the translator, but check the correctness of the program yourself. (Trust but check.)
41. In a BASIC program, the rules of the Pascal language do not apply. (They don’t go to someone else’s monastery with their own rules.)
42. If you can’t solve a problem in the evening, postpone the decision until the morning. (The morning is wiser than the evening.)
43. A condition is used in the header of a loop operator with a parameter. (There is elderberry in the garden, and there is a man in Kyiv.)
44. One grandmother said that a bit can take the values 0 or 1. (The grandmother said in two - either it will rain or snow, either it will happen or it won’t.)
45. Program listing will endure anything. (Paper will endure anything.)
46. The error is visible, but the cause has not been eliminated. (The eye sees, but the tooth numbs.)
47. Each participant in program development must work on his own part of the task. (Every cricket knows its nest.)
48. They say that you can use a condition in the head of a loop statement with a parameter, and a loop operator in the condition. (They say that chickens are milked, and cows lay eggs.)
49. If the programmer knew where he would make a mistake, he would think about it more carefully. (If I knew where to fall, I’d spread straws.)
50. It is necessary to alternate between developing programs and rest. (Business is time, fun is an hour.)
51. Praise is also pleasant for a novice programmer. (A kind word also pleases the cat.)
52. You can’t ruin a program with comments. (You can’t spoil porridge with oil.)
A selection of erroneous statements about new technologies
The topic of forecasts regarding new technologies has always been tempting and interesting. Probably, the interest here is fueled by the excitement of the size of the bet - either the person will guess and then, with the appearance of the wisest person, will proudly exclaim to everyone - “I told you so!”, or he will not guess, in which case his phrase-prediction will most likely become even more famous and will even more often remembered by people with mockery of the stupid self-confidence of the author of the unfulfilled saying. Here we must remember the folk wisdom “the word is not a sparrow, if it flies out you cannot catch it,” so it is worth once again assessing all the risks before publicly declaring to everyone about confident knowledge of the future.
This article presents a selection of people's statements about emerging new technologies in the field of telecommunications and computing devices. Today, you can analyze with interest the phrases of many outstanding people of the twentieth century and evaluate how true and accurate they turned out to be. For example, what can we say today about the statement of US Federal Communications Commission member T. Craven in 1961: “The likelihood that a space satellite will be used for telephone, telegraph and television communications services is practically zero.”
Erroneous forecasts in the field of infocommunications
You can find many examples of erroneous predictions and predictions about new technologies, which in the future turned out to be extremely popular in spite of their instigators. Using these people as an example, we can give advice: if you have a desire to express skepticism about some new technology, it is better to wait it out until this feeling leaves you.
Sayings about computers
1. “No one will need more than 637 kilobytes of RAM for a personal computer. 640 kilobytes should be enough for everyone."
Due to the characteristics of the first Intel microprocessors, in the first and only megabyte of the real-mode address space of processors, 640 kilobytes were allocated for RAM, and the rest for video memory, BIOS, etc. In this regard, during the creation of the first IBM PC, Bill Gates (or maybe not he) uttered this famous statement. However, Bill himself denies authorship of this phrase, claiming that he did not say anything like that.
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2. “The idea of a personal communicator in every pocket is a “pipe dream driven by greed” - Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel
3. “On the world market, the maximum you can sell is about five computers,” - Thomas J. Watson Sr., chairman of the board of directors of IBM in 1943.
Note. In 1924, George W. Fairchild, chairman of Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR), died and was succeeded by sales chief and company president Thomas Watson. CTR's product line at that time included cash registers, scales, meat grinders, punched card equipment, adding machines and time tracking systems. Once Watson was in sole control, he changed the company's name to International Business Machines (IBM), which was ambitious since the firm did not even have a national reach at the time. However, within four years, Watson doubled the company's revenue to $9 million. The business grew quickly, and by the 1930s, IBM's German subsidiary had become the company's most profitable, largely due to the punch cards it provided to the Nazi Party. They were used to tabulate census data that recorded the location of citizens by race, sex and religion (for this, Watson was awarded the Order of the German Eagle in 1937, although when he returned it in 1940, Adolf Hitler was furious and declared that Watson will never set foot on German soil again.
Thomas J. Watson consistently resisted any connection with electronic computing until his retirement in 1949, considering it expensive and unreliable, even after his dismissive prediction had already proven inaccurate.
4. “In the future, computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons,” from the scientific magazine Popular Mechanics, 1949.
5. “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country, talked with the smartest people, and I can guarantee you that data processing is just a fad, the fashion for which will not last more than a year,” - editor of Prentice Hall, 1957.
6. “No one will need computers by themselves anymore, and no one is able to buy them. Computers are incredibly difficult to use and cannot be trusted by anyone except mathematical scientists." - Douglas Hartree, English professor of physics and mathematics.
It is worth noting that, of course, at the time when the venerable professor said this phrase, computers did not have the interface we are familiar with.
7. “But what... could be useful in this thing?” – IBM head Robert Lloyd doubted the need for a microprocessor when discussing development in the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968.
8. “There is no reason why people would want a personal computer in their home” - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, a manufacturer of large business computers, 1977.
Note. Between the 1960s and 1990s, Digital Equipment Corporation seriously challenged IBM's dominance in the computer industry, and by the mid-1980s they became the second largest company selling computing devices. But due to the company's policy not to work in the direction of personal computers, it eventually went bankrupt.
9. “I believe that OS/2 is destined to become the most important operating system and perhaps the best program of all time,” a quote from Bill Gates’ OS/2 Programmer’s Guide, 1987.
10. “We will never release a 32-bit operating system,” Bill Gates.
Statements addressed to the radio
1. “Radio has no future” - Lord Kelvin, the great British physicist. Kelvin said this phrase in 1897.
2. “The wireless music box has no commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nowhere? - David Sarnoff's associates in response to the latter's call to invest in radio, 1921. David Sarnoff is the first person in the world to organize a music radio station.
3. Here is what an American attorney said in 1913 to the radio pioneer and inventor of the triode, Lee De Forest:
“Lee De Forest has repeatedly stated in newspapers that very soon it will be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. These are absurd and patently false statements.”
4. “There will only be one orchestra left on Earth, which will give nightly concerts and all over the world everyone will listen to it on the radio; all universities will be united into one institution of higher education, delivering courses by radio to students in Zanzibar, Kamchatka and Oskaloosa; instead of newspapers, trained speakers will tell the news of the world day and night; every person will be instantly available, day and night, to all those bores he knows, and will know them all: the last vestiges of solitude and loneliness will disappear” - published by the American journalist Bruce Bliven in the New York newspaper The New Republic, 1922.
Statements about telephony
1. “Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit voice over wires. Even if such a thing becomes possible, such technology will not find practical application” - editorial column in the Boston Post, 1865.
2. In 1868, the New York Times published an article reporting the following:
“A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort money from the ignorant and superstitious by displaying a device which he claims can transmit the human voice to any distance through metal wires. The scammer calls this tool a telephone. As you know, educated people know that it is impossible to transmit a human voice over wires.”
3. “This, of course, is a great invention, but judge for yourself, who would want to use it?” said US President R. Hayes in 1876 after the presentation of his first telephone by Alexander Bell in the White House.
Note. It is worth noting that by 1886, contrary to the statements of famous experts of its time, the Bell company had created an industry that is today valued at approximately $5 trillion a year.
4. “Americans have a need for a telephone, but we don’t. We have more than enough messenger boys." - William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Postal Service, 1878.
5. “This “telephone” has too many shortcomings to seriously consider it as a means of communication. This device is useless to us,” said Western Union in 1878.
6. “Even if work continues on the development of cell phones, and even when we are no longer alive, they will still not be able to replace landline wired telephones, having too high a cost” - Marty Cooper, an inventor who is considered the creator of the cell phone phone, who later became director of research at Motorola, 1981.
7. This is what Bell management said to members of the US Federal Communications Commission:
“Cell phones have no future, while communications in cars are already in use today.”
The following statement was also made:
“... in a year the number of cars equipped with cell phones will be 50,000, and in 2000 even more so - 900,000.”
Note. Recall that in 2000 the number of mobile phone users was more than 2 billion.
Statements about television
1. “Television will not be able to stay on the market for more than six months after its introduction. People will soon get tired of staring into a plywood box every evening,” Darryl Zanuck, American producer, screenwriter, director.
2. “While television may theoretically and technically be a reality, I do not believe in its commercial and financial success. The development of TV technology is a waste of time." - Lee De Forest, "The Father of Radio", a pioneer in the field of film scoring and recording sound on film, holder of more than 180 patents.
3. “This television of yours is a one-day project. It won’t last long,” Mary Sommerville, pioneer of educational broadcasting in the United States.
4. “Television will never be a serious competitor to radio because people will have to sit and watch the screen; the average American family does not have time for this" - from the editorial board of the New York Times, 1939.
5. “I will believe in a 500-channel world only when I see it” - Sumner Redstone, Chairman of CBS Corporation - an American media holding company that includes television and radio broadcasting businesses.
6. Television inventor Philo Farnsworth believed that television would create world peace:
“If we can see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstanding? The war would be a thing of the past."
7. Also thought in 1946 by Thomas Hutchinson:
“TV is a window to the world. Television means that the world is your home and in the homes of all the people of the world. It is the greatest means of communication ever developed by the human mind. It should serve to develop the friendliness of neighbors and to achieve mutual understanding and peace on Earth even more than any other material force in the modern world.”
8. “It is a means of entertainment which enables millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonely” - writer T. S. Eliot, 1963
Satellite connection
On January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an article stating that "the rocket will never be able to leave A Space Odyssey." In an interview given shortly before his death in March 2008, Clark was asked whether he realized that satellite communications would become so important to the world.
I am often asked why I did not patent the idea of communication satellites. My answer: “A patent is simply a license to claim.” The geostationary orbit for communications satellites is informally referred to as the Clark orbit or Clark belt as a sign of his foresight for this technology.
“The likelihood that a space satellite will be used for telephone, telegraph and television communications services is practically zero,” - T. Craven, member of the US Federal Communications Commission, 1961.
Postal service
“Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within a few hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail." - Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General, 1959
Note. In 1996, the free email service RocketMail was launched. However, of course, no one used real rockets.
The confidence in the statements of many people in this collection is simply off the charts. It is appropriate to note the Dunning-Kruger effect here.
From Wikipedia: The Dunning-Kruger effect is a metacognitive distortion in which people with low skill levels draw erroneous conclusions, make poor decisions, and at the same time are unable to recognize their mistakes due to their low level of skill. This leads them to have inflated ideas about their own abilities, while truly highly qualified people, on the contrary, tend to underestimate their abilities and suffer from insufficient self-confidence, considering others to be more competent. Thus, less competent people generally have a higher opinion of their own abilities than is typical for competent people. Also, highly skilled people mistakenly believe that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for other people.
Dunning-Kruger curve
Conclusion. To maintain balance in the universe, in contrast to the entire selection presented, I would like to end the article with one of the most accurate and unusually significant predictions of the great man:
“... We will be able to communicate with each other instantly, regardless of distance... Through television and telephony we will see and hear each other as perfectly as if we were face to face, despite distances of thousands of miles; the tool with which we can do this will be surprisingly compact compared to our current phone. A man will be able to carry it in his vest pocket” - Nikola Tesla.
