Computer Quotes and Sayings - Page 3



Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Anonymous

At least my pencil never crashes!
Anonymous

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.
Theodosius Dobzansky

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
David Thornburg

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Larry Niven

Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.
Martin Reiser

Apathy Error: Don’t bother striking any key.
Anonymous

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anonymous

I can see computers everywhere – except in the productivity statistics!
Robert Solow

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean “idiot.”
Dave Barry

Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
Anonymous

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there’s no law against whacking them around a little.
Eric Porterfield

Don’t anthropomorphize computers – they hate it.
Anonymous

Never let a computer know you’re in a hurry.
Anonymous

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

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
Neil Postman

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
Gareth Owen

There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.
Guy Almes

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Farmer’s Almanac

If it draws blood, it’s hardware.
Anonymous

Technically, Windows is an “operating system,” which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.
Dave Barry

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Doug Gwyn

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! Anonymous

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
Leonard Brandwein

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie

No matter how fast your computer system runs, you will eventually come to think of it as slow.
Anonymous

Unix never says “please.”
Rob Pike

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