- Asks you to take out the recycle bin
- Gives you the cold boot in the morning
- Can’t live with them, can’t live without them
- They work only when they want to
- It keeps you up late at night for no good reason
- No one but their creator understands their internal logic
- Even your smallest mistakes are immediately committed to memory for future reference
- The native language used to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
- The message, “Bad command or filename,” is about as informative as: “If you don’t know why I’m mad at you, then I’m certainly not going to tell you!”
- As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on it
