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The computer is a moron.
~ Peter Drucker There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
~ Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977 Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
~ Andy Rooney The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
~ Donald E. Knuth In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
~ Unknown There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
~ Ken Olsen, CEO DEC 1977
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
~ Mitch Ratliffe pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
~ Jeff Meyer
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
~ Emo Phillips The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets, no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.
~ John Davy There are two things in particular that it the computer industry failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet...; the other was the fact that the century would end.
~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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