Computer Quotes
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"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."
 -- Alan Perlis
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they
make it easier to do don't need to be done."
 -- Andy Rooney
"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you
stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
 -- Bill Gates
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee --
that will do them in."
 -- Bradley's Bromide
"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
 -- Clifford Stoll
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including
the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
 -- Doug Larson
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
 -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than
the question of whether a submarine can swim."
 -- Edsger Dijkstra
"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
 -- Edward Shepherd Mead
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
 -- Farmers' Almanac, 1978
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
 -- Isaac Asimov
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently
programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
 -- Isaac Asimov
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world
that just don't add up."
 -- James Magary
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.
This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
 -- Jef Raskin
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up
there's no law against wacking them around a little."
 -- Joe Martin
"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but
groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."
 -- John Allen
"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere
is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
 -- John Dvorak
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
 -- Ken Olsen
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by
accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
 -- Nathaniel Borenstein
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
 -- Pablo Picasso
"The computer is a moron."
 -- Peter Drucker
"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery.
But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow
ennobled and no-one dares criticize it."
 -- Pierre Gallois
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger
and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and
better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
 -- Rick Cook
"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."
 -- Robert Orben
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode
once a year, killing everyone inside."
 -- Robert Cringely
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about
human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely
destructive. We've created life in our own image."
 -- Stephen Hawking
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."
 -- Unknown
"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have
taken many men many months to equal it."
 -- Unknown
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
 -- unknown