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 (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. – Jef 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
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 X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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
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