Computer Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
Richard Feynman
I wish life had an Undo function.
Anonymous
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Anonymous
Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Robert A. Heinlein
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
Anonymous
Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.
Dave Barry
We build our computer the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
Ellen Ullman
It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
Nicholas P. Negroponte
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
J.H. Goldfuss
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America’s economic, political, and social life.
Bill Clinton
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
Bill Clinton
Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
NASA 1965
If automobiles 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 Cringely
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Werner von Braun
But they are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
The computer is no better than its program.
Elting Elmore Morison
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Hardware : the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
Douglas Adams
I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Anonymous
I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS.
Larry DeLuca
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma Bombeck
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
Anonymous
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
Marilyn Pittman
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
The computer actually may have aggravated management’s degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
Peter Drucker
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