Computers
Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
- Bruce Sterling
- Bruce Sterling
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra
- E. W. Dijkstra
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
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
- Pierre Gallois
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen
- Ken Olsen
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Baudrillard, Jean
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jeff Raskin
- Jeff Raskin
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies
- Bill Bulko
- Bill Bulko
Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed.
- Boschert, Bob
- Boschert, Bob
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson
- Doug Larson
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
- Bernard Avishai
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
- Kennedy, John F.
- Kennedy, John F.
Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
- Debord, Guy
- Debord, Guy
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
- Martin Schulze
- Martin Schulze
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
- Andy Rooney
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Baudrillard, Jean
Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
- Quentin Crisp
- Quentin Crisp
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
- Harris, Sidney J.
- Harris, Sidney J.
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
- Cascio, Jamais


















