What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. —Epictetus More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conceit is God's gift to little men. —Bruce Barton More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. —Bernard Bailey More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. —Aesop More about this quote Tags: conceit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. —Aesop More about this quote Tags: conceit 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The computer is a moron. —Peter Drucker 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
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