More quotations tagged with “computers”
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
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
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
—Unknown
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
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