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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
-Alexander Cockburn
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
-Robert X Cringely
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It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
-Guy Debord
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The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
-Marcus Dolengo
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The computer is a moron.
-Peter Drucker
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A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.
-Sheila M. Eby
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The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.
-Lewis D. Eigen
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I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later.
-William Fink
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
-Bill Gates
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
-Bill Gates
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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
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I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That was Dick Bloch. He drove nearly all of us crazy because he could do that. Since the Mark I was a relay and step counter machine, it was not too difficult to change the circuits. Every once in a while, Dick would get the idea of a new circuit that would make his problem run faster. He'd get together with one of the operators during the night and they would fix the circuit. The next morning my programs wouldn't run. It's much better to have machines that the programers cannot alter.
Commander Aiken was a tough taskmaster. I was sitting at my desk one day, and he said, You're going to write a book. I said, I can't write a book. He said, You're in the Navy now. And so I wrote a book. I have it here with me. This is the Mark I manual.
Howard Aiken always said that one day we would have computers that would fit in a shoe box. I don't t know how he knew that, but he did.
-Grace Murray Hopper, speaking at The Computer Museum, April 14, 1983
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Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
-Grace Murray Hopper
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We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
-Grace Murray Hopper
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Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
-William M. Kelly
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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
-Leslie Lamport
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I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure your pleased too no,
Its letter perfect in its weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
-Janet Minor
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I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
-Kenneth Olsen
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Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
-Jeff Pesis
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-Pablo Picasso
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
-Porterfield
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Mitch Ratliffe
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There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
-Bertrand Russell
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Books about Computers
