More quotations tagged with “computers”
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
—Isaac Asimov
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
—G. K. Chesterton
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
—E. W. Dijkstra
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
—Doug Larson
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
—Clifford Stoll