Computers

(30 votes)   A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.

Sheila M. Eby
American Business Executive

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(30 votes)   It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

Guy Debord
1931-, French Philosopher

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(29 votes)   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Penn Jillett

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(29 votes)   The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.

Anonymous

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(29 votes)   The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha -- which is to demean oneself.

Robert Pirsig

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(29 votes)   There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Richard P. Feynman

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(28 votes)   After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

John Pierce

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(28 votes)   It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. (stated in 1949)

John Von Neumann

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(28 votes)   The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.

Lewis D. Eigen
American Executive VP of University Research Corp.

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(27 votes)   Anti-glare screens to prevent eye strain??? In my day, you didn't need an anti-glare screen. With the power they consumed, when you turned your computer on, the whole building darkened!

Simon Travaglia

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

Harry Weinberger

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(27 votes)   They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

Janet Reno

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(26 votes)   Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

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(26 votes)   Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Walter Mossberg

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(25 votes)   A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

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