Computers

(25 votes)   Any nitwit can understand computers. Many do.

Ted Nelson

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(25 votes)   at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

M.G. Siriam

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(25 votes)   Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

William M. Kelly

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(25 votes)   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

Porterfield

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(24 votes)   Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead

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(24 votes)   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.

Nathanie Borenstein
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(24 votes)   The personal computer market is about the same size as the total potato chip market. Next year it will be about half the size of the pet food market and is fast approaching the total worldwide sales of hose.

James Finke

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(23 votes)   An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.

Robert L. Kruse

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(23 votes)   Some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest.

Thomas Penfield Jackson

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(23 votes)   What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter F. Mondale

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(22 votes)   PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.

Unknown

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(22 votes)   Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed.

Bob Boschert

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(22 votes)   The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger Dijkstra

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(21 votes)   A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

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(21 votes)   Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Charles Sykes

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