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Quotations by Subject: Computers (33 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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Results from Classic Quotes:

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 November 1984
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.: Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick

Results from Cole's Quotables:

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 - )
If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.: Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.: Quentin Crisp
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.": Bernard Avishai
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.: Dave Barry (1947 - )

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