computers

1.

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

2.

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

- Kelly, William M.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

- Bradley's Bromide

6.

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

7.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

- Baudrillard, Jean

8.

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

9.

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

- Ken Olsen

10.

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

- Barry, Dave

11.

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

12.

A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.

- Eby, Sheila M.

13.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

- Janet Reno

14.

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

15.

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.

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.

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

- Robert Orben

18.

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

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

20.

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