Computers Are Schizophrenic Children

And that’s just in your own chosen field, which represents such a tiny fraction of all the things there are to know in computer science you might as well never have learned anything at all. Not a single living person knows how everything in your five-year-old MacBook actually works. Why do we tell you to turn it off and on again? Because we don’t have the slightest clue what’s wrong with it, and it’s really easy to induce coma in computers and have their built-in team of automatic doctors try to figure it out for us. The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad.

A text meme humorously explains that even computer scientists do not fully understand how computers work. It jokes that coders’ machines function better because coders treat computers like sick, unruly children instead of punishing them, parodying the common advice to restart a malfunctioning device.

• @gentoomemes / 16005 2025-02-13