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Quotes about Computers

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
- Unknown, Quotations by unknown authors

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, Quotations by unknown authors

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

CP Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

CP I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

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, English cosmologist and physicist (1942 - )

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson

CP Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead

The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker, American (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005)

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, Quotations by unknown authors

CP There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen, US computer engineer & industrialist (1926 - )

CP 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

CP The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- Alan Perlis

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 ennobled 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, US computer software designer & industrialist (1955 - )

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

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
- Clifford Stoll

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

CP To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- Farmers' Almanac

CP 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