Computer Quotes and Sayings - Page 4



The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstei

Yesterday it worked, Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
Margaret Segall

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Peter Rothman

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
Anonymous

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Leslie Lamport

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.
Anonymous

Some people can hack it, others can’t.
Anonymous

Rebooting is a wonder drug – it fixes almost everything.
Garrett Hazel

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll

Chaos reigns within.Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
Suzie Wagner

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
Bill Gates

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
Larry Elliso

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
Anonymous

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.
Dave Barry

A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
Anonymous

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It’s just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
Scott Adams

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.
Scott Adams

I haven’t lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
Anonymous

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
One of Murphy’s Laws of Technology

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
Brian M. Porter

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
Marcus Dolengo

Home is where you hang your @.
Anonymous

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

Macintosh – we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
Douglas Adams

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
David Ansel

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can’t bridge
Rahul Sonnad

Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1.
Anonymous

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they’re knocking off servers.
Richard Power

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!
Richard P. Feynman

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