Computer Quotes

  • Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.(Bill Bulko)
  • The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.(E. W. Dijkstra)
  • The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.(Vartan Gregorian)
  • One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse.(Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
  • There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.(Ken Olson)
  • Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.(Andrew A. Rooney)
  • Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.(Sid Taylor)
  • All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.(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)
  • Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped 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)
  • I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.(Thomas John Watson, Sr.)
  • In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.(John C. Dvorak)
  • I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.(Brian Eno)
  • To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.(Farmers' Almanac)
  • If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.(Pierre Gallois)
  • The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.(Bill Gates)
  • Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.(Edward Shepherd Mead)
  • The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.(Joe Martin)
  • Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.(James Magary)
  • There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.(Ken Olsen)
  • Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.(Andy Rooney)
  • Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.(Andy Rooney)
  • Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.(Jef Raskin)
  • Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users(Clifford Stoll)

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