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- Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
- Blake Clark
- The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)
- It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- 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
- 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
- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- Quentin Crisp
- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra
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