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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.   (Unknown)
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.   (Pablo Picasso)
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.   (James Magary)
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.   (Unknown)
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.   (Jef Raskin)
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.   (Isaac Asimov)
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.   (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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.   (Rich Cook)
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)
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.   (E. W. Dijkstra)
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.   (Ken Olsen President Digital Equipment 1977)
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.   (Alan Perlis)
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.   (unknown)
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.   (Joe Martin)
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.   (Andy Rooney)
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.   (Edward Shepherd Mead)
The computer is a moron.   (Peter Drucker)
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 Jillette in a Compuserve chat)
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.   (Isaac Asimov)
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.   (Robert Orben)
Computer make very fast, very accurate mistake.   (Mr Shimada)
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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