
Computers can be fabulous thing's things. But...
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- "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
Doug Larson
- "If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
Bradley's Bromide
- "Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
Edward Shepherd Mead
- "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
Farmers' Almanac, 1978
- "One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."
John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93
- "In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
John C. Dvorak
- "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
- "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 (1957 - )
- "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- "The computer is a moron."
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- "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."
Pierre Gallois
- "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."
Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
- "To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Robert Orben
- "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