Computers in Life & Quotations

 

 

A Month of Computer Quotations
 

 

 

1
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Unknown
 
2
Computers WORK, people THINK.
- IBM Corporation Old Adage
 
3
The computer is no better than its program.
- Elting Morison
 
4
Immunity to boredom gives the computer an edge.
- Alan Lakein
 
5
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
- John F. Kennedy
 
6
Computer Science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes.
- Edgar W. Dijkstra
 
7
A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
- Sheila M. Eby
 
8
The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- Wernher von Braun
 
9
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
- Eugene Wigner
 
10
Just like escapism through drugs, people may escape reality through computers.
- Jagdisk Sheth
 
11
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
- Dave Barry
 
12
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
- Vance Packard
 
13
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
- Alvin Toffler
 
14
If computers get too powerful, we'll organize them into committees. That'll do them in.
- Bill Gold
 
15
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
- Bill Bulko
 
16
Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]
- Unknown
 
17
Being in the microcomputer business is like going 55 miles an hour 3 feet from a cliff.
- George Morrow
 
18
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Grace Murray Hopper
 
19
Computer Science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes.
- Edgar W. Dijkstra
 
20
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
- Vance Packard
 
21
Marriage, I am convinced, is going to be the last subject to be effectively computerized.
- Drusilla Beyfus
 
22
The computer can do more work faster than a human because it doesn't have to answer the phone.
- Joey Adams
 
23
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
- Michael Crichton
 
24
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
- Dave Barry
 
25
The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- Wernher von Braun
 
26
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
- Eugene Wigner
 
27
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
- Clare Boothe Luce
 
28
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
- Tom Clancy
 
29
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
- Merle Meacham
 
30
[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. . .
- Jeremy Bernstein
 
31
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
- Arthur C. Clarke