Quotes about computers
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
Power, Richard
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in.
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The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
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Some people can hack it, others can't.
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Almes, Guy
Macintosh - we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
Adams, Douglas
Jesus saves! The rest of us better make backups.
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Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Heinlein, Robert A.
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Gwyn, Doug
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence.
Anderson, Jeremy S.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Harris, Sydney J.
DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
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Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Adams, Scott
Unix never says "please."
Pike, Rob
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
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Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.
Hazel, Garrett
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
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There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
Goldfuss, J.H.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Ratcliffe, Mitch
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.
Barry, Dave
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
Turing, Alan
At least my pencil never crashes!
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