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

About Robert X. Cringely

Portrait of Robert X. Cringely

Mark Stephens (January 28, 1953 – October 3, 2026), known by the pen name Robert X. Cringely, was an American technology journalist. He wrote an influential and often republished column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG. Cringely also participated in various other work, including the...

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

—Robert Orben

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.

The computer is a moron.

—Peter Drucker

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

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.

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