Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. – Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell
Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living. – Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital, 1995
After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. – John Pierce
But they are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso, about computers
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes. – Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. – Mitch Ratcliffe
I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. – Author Unknown
Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat “what if?” questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. – Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top
A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space. – Author Unknown
Rebooting is a wonder drug — it fixes almost everything. – Garrett Hazel, “Help Desk Blues,” 2002
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 had a life once. Now I have a computer. – Author Unknown
My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing. – Author Unknown
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. – Dave Barry
A user and his leisure time are soon parted. – Author Unknown
At least my pencil never crashes! – Author Unknown
I wish life had an Undo function. – Author Unknown
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. – Author Unknown
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes… oh, wait a minute, he already does. – Author Unknown
