In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

—Unknown

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

—Unknown

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

—Unknown

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

—Unknown

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

—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

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.

—Rick Cook