Computer Quotes and Sayings - Page 5



There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.
Dave Barry

Computers will never take the place of books. You can’t stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
Sam Ewing

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
Anonymous

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
Alan Turing

What boots up must come down.
Anonymous

Windows is just DOS in drag.
Anonymous

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
Anonymous

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.
Linus Torvalds

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak

A thunderstorm is God’s way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer.
Anonymous

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
Bill Gates

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