computers

1.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

- Thomas Watson

2.

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

3.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

- Stephen Hawking

4.

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

- Kelly, William M.

5.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

- John C. Dvorak

6.

I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later.

- Fink, William

7.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

- Barry, Dave

8.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

- Ken Olsen

9.

There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

- Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

11.

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

- Bill Bulko

12.

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

- Robert Orben

13.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

- Weinberger, Harry

14.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

- Bradley's Bromide

15.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

- Albert Einstein

16.

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

17.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Doug Larson

18.

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

19.

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

- Cockburn, Alexander

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Control over computing belongs with users.

- Allen, Brandt