The House Calls ‘Kitchen Drawer’ Collection
of Computer User Rules, Laws, Sayings and Proverbs
Home is where you hang your @
No new feature added to a program in the last two years works the way you think it will.
The E_mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
The words you are looking for have just scrolled off the screen.
A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
You can't access the feature you need from here.
You can teach a new mouse old clicks.
Cut, Copy, Paste. ‘Everything You Need to Know, You Learned in Kindergarten’
Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.
What boots up must crash down. (also known as Gates' First Law)
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly you can Undo.
The modem is the message.
If the letter seems too short, make the margins bigger.
FAQ is stranger than fiction.
What you see is not what someone else gets.
Too many clicks spoil the browse.
Digital Progress
You'll pay for it whether you need it or not.
You'll need it if you don't get it.
You'll pay more to get it after you need it.
Will windows never cease ? (Only in the virtual version)
Time gained from increased productivity is consumed by Solitaire and/or web surfing.
Virtual reality is its own reward.
The less you know about what is actually going on inside your computer, the better.
A user and his leisure are soon parted.
You will discover a crucial error immediately after completing a mass E_Mailing.
Know what to expect before you connect.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach him to surf the Net and he won't bother you for months.
A computer that has a 35" color screen, plays movies, creates music,
whistles in surround sound and tells jokes.. is still a computer.
Oh, what a tangled Web We Weave when first we practice with HTML.
Mistakes that used to take a lot of time and effort can be reproduced
instantly and repeatedly with a computer.
A computer program customized or written specifically for you or your
business will still mangle your data, but you will feel better about it.
Don't byte off more than you can view.
A disaster narrowly averted only makes other disasters more likely to occur.
From great groups, little icons grow.
The closer a deadline, the more likely your computer is to crash.
If everything else is working correctly, the printer will suddenly break down.
C:\ is the root of all.
If you have to work with someone else's data, it will be in an unfamiliar format.
The fourth time you fail to save ...
It is always possible for things to actually become easier, just not likely.
Consider this: the 'Windows' concept was bought by business because
it 'reduced the learning curve'.
Speed thrills.
Any sufficiently complicated information can be organized into
a totally incomprehensible table.
If the 'SpellChecker', 'GrammarChecker', or 'ProofReader' changes what you wrote,
who will ever kn÷?
It is important to know when to quit.