Computers Quotes "We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable." — Nick Park "We don't mind taking the money and using it simply for computers and technology initiatives that we as Virginias have determined, but I don't want them doing anything to harm our standards." — George Allen "The next big wave for computers, at least as far as we can tell, is going to be these modular designs, so it's a race to see which major brand does it first." — Rob Enderle "We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project," — Rob Roberts "The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers." — John Pescatore "Not only are all of his skills ... oriented toward computers, but even if he were to not want to work in the computer field, it's very hard to get a job of any kind that does not require you to work with computers." — Kevin Mitnick "If you are going to need more computers in a school, you need to know that before you start renovating so you can provide the electrical hookups necessary." — Margaret Craft "We'll be able to interact with these computers the way we interact with each other, they would recognize speech." — Kwabena Boahen "We think within three years, 60 percent of all desktop computers shipped will be these small form-factor devices. And that could happen even sooner." — Martin Reynolds "Big RISC computers are used, for example, in payment-card processing, banking, and airline reservations." — Martin Reynolds "We were one of the first in the area to offer the service. The computers allowed us to take smaller samples and, in turn, save more lives." — Virgil Kelly "The increase in e-filing is really being driven by people using their home computers. E-file is the safe, accurate way for taxpayers to quickly finish their taxes and get a refund." — Mark Everson "The students are far more adept at computers than we are." — Leo Nesmith "To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so." — Robert Orben "The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer." — David Anderson "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 "Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking." — Milton Glaser "As a consequence of our current dependence on computers, some Y2K-related failures could have noticeable effects on the economy," — Alan Greenspan "The finance and services sectors reported the highest expectations for capital spending, especially on computers and communications equipment." — Ken Simonson "For the first time this year our commercials will be downloadable on to video players and computers. It is the way consumers want to be reached." — Marlene Coulis "If you're a foreign intelligence service and you know that a [US] federal agency is buying 15,000 computers from [a Chinese] company, wouldn't you look into the possibility that you could do something about that?" — Larry Wortzel There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users". -Edward Tufte Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why. I really hate this damned machine \nI wish that they would sell it. \nIt never does quite what I want \nBut only what I tell it. A Programmer's Lament \nFor every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. \n-H L Mencken And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: It's just what we asked for but not what we want. Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. \n-Laurence J. Peter "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man, and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. " - Warren G. Bennis "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn "If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in." - Author Unknown "Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” - Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc. "Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. ~Author Unknown “Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.” - Jeff Pesis "The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord." - Author Unknown “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.” - Seymour Cray “Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.‘" - Dave Barry "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." - J.K. Rowling, author of The Harry Potter books "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller "The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. " - Author Unknown "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. "- Stewart Brand "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Author Unknown "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. " - Frank Lloyd Wright "Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG." - Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft "Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. " - Karl Marx "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris "The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb." - Marshall McLuhan "Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage." - Mike Trout "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology." - John Tudor "Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." - Andrew Heller "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 "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. " - R. Buckminster Fuller "It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. " - Nicholas P. Negroponte "A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." - Joseph Weizenbaum “I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard "Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.” - William M. Kelly "The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology." - E.F. Schumacher "The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient." - Steve Jobs "Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences." - Lewis Mumford "Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." - C.P. Snow "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov "Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. " - Robert M. Pirsig "The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men." - Havelock Ellis" We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. - John Kenneth Galbraith "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." - Bruce Lee "Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?" - Joseph Campbell "Computers have lots of memory but no imagination." - Author Unknown "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates The manual says to insert disk three, but only two will fit. --- Anonymous Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. --- Charles Sykes Multi-tasking - Screwing everything up simultaneously. --- Anonymous 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 Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity. --- Anonymous E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority. --- Grant Fairley In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. --- Bill Gates If at first it doesn't work, REBOOT! --- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to keep all the pieces. --- Aldo Leopold When Life Gives You Questions, Google has Answers - AJ Carpio My pokemon brings all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard. - Unknown 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d - tee shirt If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0 - T-Shirt Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." - Unknown I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly - T-Shirt There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. - Unknown The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown