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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.: Farmers' Almanac, 1978
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3, 1910
Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.: Glen Raphael
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
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, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93
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
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.: Marvin Minsky
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 (1909 - 2005)
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, The Wizardry Compiled
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 (1942 - )
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, Popular Mechanics, March 1949


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