| Quotations on the subject: Computers & Technology |
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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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.
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To err is human... and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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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.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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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.
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If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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