Computers

(39 votes)   Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.

Anonymous

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(39 votes)   If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.

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(38 votes)   Computers WORK, people THINK.

IBM Corporation Old Adage
American Computer Company

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(38 votes)   If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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(37 votes)   Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(37 votes)   It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Nicholas P. Negroponte

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(37 votes)   Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.

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(36 votes)   Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(36 votes)   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.

Rich Cook

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(34 votes)   The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

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(33 votes)   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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(32 votes)   Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?

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(32 votes)   I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.

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(32 votes)   Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John F. Kennedy

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(32 votes)   Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.

Anonymous

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