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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 (1919 - )
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 (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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.
E. W. 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 (1920 - 1992)
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently
programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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.
Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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, Porterfield
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 C. Dvorak
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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 (1957 - )
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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
enobled 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.
Rich Cook
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