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Andy Rooney Description: 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. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:40:06 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Alan Perlis Description: The computing field is always in need of new cliches Added on: March 06, 2007 6:50:35 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Bill Gates Description: The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:51:08 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Bradley's Bromide Description: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:52:01 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Clifford Stoll Description: Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? Added on: March 06, 2007 6:52:32 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Doug Larson Description: Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:53:03 AM | Rate / Comment |
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E. W. Dijkstra Description: Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:53:31 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Edward Shepherd Mead Description: Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:53:56 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Farmers' Almanac Description: To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:54:32 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Isaac Asimov Description: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:55:00 AM | Rate / Comment |
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James Magary Description: Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:55:22 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Jef Raskin Description: Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:55:52 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Joe Martin Description: The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:56:19 AM | Rate / Comment |
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John C. Dvorak Description: In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:57:08 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Ken Olsen - President, Digital Equipment, 1977 Description: There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:57:48 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Nathaniel Borenstein Description: 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. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:58:18 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Pablo Picasso Description: Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:58:37 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Peter Drucker Description: The computer is a moron. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:59:00 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Pierre Gallois Description: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. Added on: March 06, 2007 6:59:31 AM | Rate / Comment |
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Rick Cook Description: 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. Added on: March 06, 2007 7:00:01 AM | Rate / Comment |