Quotes about Computers
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug." (The Mythical Man Month)
If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug." (The Mythical Man Month)
If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The computer is a moron.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.