Computer Quotes - Page 7

• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

  Fred Brooks

  Projects, Programming, Late

  "The Mythical Man-Month," Datamation, Dec. 1974

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Internet

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• Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Successful, Design, Problem

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• There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Disease, Serious

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.241, Princeton University Press

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• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  Alan Kay

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Technology

  "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Brain, Transformation, Achieve

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• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Jobs, Apples, Ears

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cheer, Pregnancy, Technology

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• Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

  Jef Raskin

  Funny, Time, Humor

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Bills, Pope

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• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

  Bill Budge

  Years, Apples, Income

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Technology

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

  Donald Knuth

  Funny Inspirational, Bugs, Programming

  Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977

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• 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

  Humorous, Learning, Agreement

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• I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Ebay, Europe, Know How

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• We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Viruses, Funny Computer, Computer Viruses

  "The Daily News" Newspaper, August 4, 1994.

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• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• The power of the computer is starting to spread.

  Bill Budge

  Starting Over, Starting, Spread

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• The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

  Wernher von Braun

  Technology, Men, Funny Work

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• The computer is a moron.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Technology, Intellectual

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• Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Window, Never Trust

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

  Ken Olsen

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  "The 10 Stupidest Things Ever Said By Tech's Smartest People" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. April 17, 2013.

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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

  Education, Dog, Home

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