Computers

(17 votes)   If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Robert Cringely

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(17 votes)   pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

Jeff Meyer

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(17 votes)   Too bad men aren't like computers. Predictable, compliant, full of answers but no questions...yet able to deliver an occasional delightful surprise.

Brenda Starr

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(17 votes)   Writing the first 90 percent of a computer program takes 90 percent of the time. The remaining ten percent also takes 90 percent of the time and the final touches also take 90 percent of the time.

N.J. Rubenking

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

James Magary

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(16 votes)   I fear that machines are several centuries ahead of the mortals.

Harry Truman

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(16 votes)   PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

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(16 votes)   To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Farmers' Almanac, 1978

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(16 votes)   Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.

Fred Blechman

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(15 votes)   As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert

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(15 votes)   I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stronstrup

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(15 votes)   It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea...

Tom Galloway

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(15 votes)   There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.

J. H. Goldfuss

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(13 votes)   Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]

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(11 votes)   If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

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