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A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

– Anonymous

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

– E. W. Dijkstra

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

– Robert X Cringely

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.

– Anonymous

The computer is a moron.

– Peter Drucker

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

– Clifford Stoll

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

– Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign

– Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

– Joseph Weizenbaum

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

– Mitch Ratliffe

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

– Mitch Ratcliffe

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

– Douglas Noel Adams

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, Data Structures and Program Design

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

– Weisert

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.

– Bette-Jane Raphael

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

– Jeff Pesis

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

– Steve Jobs

I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.

– Roger King

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

– Stephen Hawking

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of 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 M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

– Brian Eno

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle 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 X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee 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 X. Cringely, InfoWorld

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

– Mehmet Murat ildan

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 enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

– Pierre Gallois

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