Computers Quotes

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

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

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.

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.

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

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.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

If the automobile 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.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.