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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. |
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- Unknown |
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Computers WORK, people THINK. |
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- IBM Corporation Old Adage |
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The computer is no better than its program. |
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- Elting Morison |
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Immunity to boredom gives the computer an edge. |
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- Alan Lakein |
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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of
all. |
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- John F. Kennedy |
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Computer Science is not about computers, any
more than astronomy is about telescopes. |
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- Edgar W. Dijkstra |
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A computer won't clean up the errors in your
manual of procedures. |
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- Sheila M. Eby |
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The best computer is a man, and it's the only
one that can be mass-produced by unskilled
labor. |
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- Wernher von Braun |
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It is nice to know that the computer understands
the problem. But I would like to understand it
too. |
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- Eugene Wigner |
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Just like escapism through drugs, people may
escape reality through computers. |
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- Jagdisk Sheth |
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The word user is the word used by the computer
professional when they mean idiot. |
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- Dave Barry |
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The Christian notion of the possibility of
redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. |
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- Vance Packard |
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The next major explosion is going to be when
genetics and computers come together. |
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- Alvin Toffler |
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If computers get too powerful, we'll organize
them into committees. That'll do them in. |
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- Bill Gold |
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Artificial Intelligence: the art of making
computers that behave like the ones in movies. |
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- Bill Bulko |
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Computers in the future will weigh no more than
1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950] |
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- Unknown |
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Being in the microcomputer business is like
going 55 miles an hour 3 feet from a cliff. |
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- George Morrow |
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a
computer, we said it had bugs in it. |
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- Grace Murray Hopper |
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Computer Science is not about computers, any
more than astronomy is about telescopes. |
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- Edgar W. Dijkstra |
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The Christian notion of the possibility of
redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. |
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- Vance Packard |
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Marriage, I am convinced, is going to be the
last subject to be effectively computerized. |
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- Drusilla Beyfus |
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The computer can do more work faster than a
human because it doesn't have to answer the
phone. |
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- Joey Adams |
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If true computer music were ever written, it
would only be listened to by other computers. |
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- Michael Crichton |
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I am not the only person who uses his computer
mainly for the purpose of diddling with his
computer. |
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- Dave Barry |
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The best computer is a man, and it's the only
one that can be mass-produced by unskilled
labor. |
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- Wernher von Braun |
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It is nice to know that the computer understands
the problem. But I would like to understand it
too. |
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- Eugene Wigner |
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Technological man can't believe in anything that
can't be measured, taped, or put into a
computer. |
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- Clare Boothe Luce |
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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If
he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why
embarrass him? |
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- Tom Clancy |
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake
so great that it would take many men many months
to equal it. |
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- Merle Meacham |
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[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very
much larger than the number of components in a
computer. . . |
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- Jeremy Bernstein |
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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is
a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the
software. |
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- Arthur C. Clarke |
