computers

1.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

- Quentin Crisp

2.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

- Walesa, Lech

3.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

- Farmers Almanac

4.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

- Robert Orben

5.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

- Kennedy, John F.

6.

Computers WORK, people THINK.

- IBM Corporation Old Adage

7.

We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be knowledge workers.

- Davies, Owen

8.

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

9.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

- E. W. Dijkstra

10.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

- Isaac Asimov

11.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila.

- Ratliffe, Mitch

12.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

- Ballard, J. G.

13.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

- John Allen

14.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

- Pierre Gallois

15.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

- Cascio, Jamais

16.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

- Martin Schulze

17.

The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups.Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers.It would be best for you to be in the former group.

- Eigen, Lewis D.

18.

The computer is a moron.

- Peter Drucker

19.

If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

20.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

- Barry, Dave