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| Alan Perlis | The computing field is always in need of new cliches. | |
| Andy Rooney | 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. | |
| Anonymous | At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. | |
| Anonymous | Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse? | |
| Anonymous | A computer is like an airplane: it's something everyone can use, but only a few know how to operate. | |
| Bradley's Bromide | If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. | |
| E. W. Dijkstra | Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. | |
| Emo Philips (1956 - ) | A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. | |
| Farmers' Almanac | To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. | |
| Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) | I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. | |
| Isaac Asimov | Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. | |
| James Magary | Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. | |
| Jeff Raskin | 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. | |
| Joey Adams (1911 - 1999) | The computer can do more work faster than a human because it doesn't have to answer the phone. | |
| John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | The difference between friends and computers: friends ask first if they can hang and crash. | |
| Ken Olson | There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. | |
| Marilyn Pittman | What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them? | |
| Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. | |
| Pierre Gallois | 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. | |
| Popular Mechanics | Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. | |
| Porterfield | The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. | |
| Robert X. Cringely | 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. | |
| Roy Blount Jr. | The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' | |
| 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 | All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. | |
| Unknown (received via email) | There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. | |
| Wernher von Braun | Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. |
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