Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. —Joe Martin More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. —Ken Olsen More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The computer is a moron. —Peter Drucker More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. —Robert Orben More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. —H. Mumford Jones More about this quote Tags: thinking computers machines Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. —Emo Philips More about this quote Tags: humor computers chess Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email