Computer Punches

All input devices are like cats. They will ignore you at times just to remind you who is boss.

There is no such thing as -faster- systems. Whenever a new or faster system is installed, it will be loaded with software that was too much for the old system. The new system then becomes as slow as the old system.

The price always goes down after you purchase hardware.

Hardware becomes affordable just before it is obsolete.

Customers that know the least about the software make the most demands.

What works doesn't always sell, what sells doesn't always work.

The Internet is infested by acronym freaks. This rule will be known as TIIIBAF in the future.

Most Internet users make horrible economists. Internet users believe there is a free lunch.

End User: One born every minute.

Power user: Someone who's read the manual all the way through once.

Expansion slot: The computer didn't come with everything you needed.

Standard: Manufactured by the company that does the flashiest advertising.

Tutorial: A program that forces you to sit through lessons on every last obscure and little-used feature of an application while ignoring overall fundamental tricks that would make you far more productive.

Value-added: A lot more expensive.