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- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
- David Peterson
- 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
- 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
- Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
- Chuck Reid
- Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
- Tom Robbins (1936 - )
- Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- 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 - )
- When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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