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Computers

  • All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
  • 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.
  • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
  • Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
  • Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, expect the things in the world that just don’t add up.
  • I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
  • 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.
  • In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
  • If computers get too powerful, we can organize them in a committee ~~ that will do them in.
  • Not even computers will replace committees, because committees but computers.
  • Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmend and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
  • The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger of heavier.
  • The computer is a moron.
  • The most overlooked advantange to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s not law against wacking them around a little.
  • There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
  • To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.