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- Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
- G. Hopper
- If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
- I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
- Roger King
- 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.
- Porterfield
- pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
- Jeff Meyer
- If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .
- Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
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