Popular Quotes and Sayings about Computers |
| In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. ~Mark Twain 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 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 All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~Unknown A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. ~Fred Allen Efficiency is intelligent laziness. ~Anonymous To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ~Farmers%27 Almanac I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. ~Dave Barry Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ~Edward Shepherd Mead The computer is a moron. ~Peter Drucker If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. ~Bradley%27s Bromide One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant 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 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 Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. ~Quentin Crisp Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~E. W. Dijkstra There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ~Ken Olsen Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer The computing field is always in need of new cliches. ~Alan Perlis In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. ~Edward P. Tryon In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. ~Jose Simon In the end, everything is a gag. ~Charlie Chaplin I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ~Isaac Asimov Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~H. L. Mencken Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. ~Will Rogers I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ~James Thurber Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~Pablo Picasso In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. ~Alfred Hitchcock |