Computer Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“User, n.  The word computer professionals use when they mean “idiot.” 
– Dave Barry

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
– Dave Parnas

“The best way to predict the future is to implement it.”
– David Heinemeier Hansson

“We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.”
– David Hubel

“Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match.  But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role.  The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them.  In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.”
– David Moschella

“Truth is, I wouldn’t know a gigabyte from a snakebite.”
– Dolly Parton

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”
– Donald E. Knuth

“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”
– Donald Knuth

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”
– Doug Larson

“I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: “Macintosh – We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.” 
– Douglas Adams

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent.’”
– Edsger Dijkstra

“Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.”
– Edsger Dijkstra

“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
– Edsger W. Dijkstra

“The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.”
– Edsger W. Dijkstra

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
– Emo Philips

“The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there’s no law against whacking them around a little.”
– Eric Porterfield

“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in this world that just don’t add up.”
– Evan Esar

“The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.”
– Evan Esar

“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.”
– Frank Herbert

“Rebooting is a wonder drug – it fixes almost everything.”
– Garrett Hazel

“In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers.”
– Gordon Schulmeyer

“Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.”
– Greg M. Perry

“There are three kinds of death in this world.  There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network.”
– Guy Almes

“Where is the ‘any’ key?”
– Homer Simpson

“All parts should go together without forcing.  You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you.  Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason.  By all means, do not use a hammer.”
– Ibm Manual

“Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software.”
– Io Angell

“Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) … I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.”
– Isaac Asimov

“With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.”
– Isaac Asimov

“I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.”
– Isaac Asimov

“There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.”
– J.H. Goldfuss

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