Thought for the day

If people drove cars the way most of them use computers, they’d blame the car manufacturer for making it insecure whenever they had their car stolen after they’d left it in a public place with their doors unlocked, windows rolled down and keys in the ignition.

Also, they’d complain that all those gears and knobs and levers and buttons were too complicated to use, and so it’s not their fault that they burnt the engine out because drove all the way up the motorway at 50mph in 1st gear with the headlights on full beam, indicators flashing and foglights on.

And when they wrote the car off after ploughing into the back of a tractor because they hadn’t checked their brakes or tire tread depth since they bought the car, they’d complain that the manufacturers ought to make cars which never need servicing and run forever without any maintenance or upkeep.

And a final thought: if you’re reading this, but don’t know the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet, then consider that you’re doing the computing equivalent of driving without knowing the difference between a road network and a bus service.

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