Sayings and Quotes

Computers Quotes and Sayings

The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker-1909

Unix never says please.
Rob Pike

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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What boots up must come down.
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Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1.
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Home is where you hang your @*.
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I wish life had an Undo function.
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If it draws blood, it’s hardware.
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Some people can hack it, others can’t.
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At least my pencil never crashes!
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RAM* disk is not an installation procedure.
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In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
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Apathy Error* Don’t bother striking any key.
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I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy

Never let a ‘computer’ know you’re in a hurry.
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But they are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Rebooting is a wonder drug – it fixes almost everything.
Garrett Hazel-2002*

Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
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I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.
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Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
Nathan Myhrvold

Hardware* the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis

Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
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Don’t anthropomorphize computers – they hate it.
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There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
J.H. Goldfuss

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Alan Perlis

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
Marcus Dolengo

I haven’t lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.
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Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.
Martin Reiser-1995*

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!
Richard Feynman

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
**Bill Gates**

Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Robert A. Heinlein

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
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Database* the information you lose when your memory crashes.
Dave Barry

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte

Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
Leonard Brandwein

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen-1926

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

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

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
Clifford Stoll

A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before
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After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
John Pierce

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**-1955

It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce

Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
Norman Augustine

A thunderstorm is God’s way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer
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After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.”
Douglas Adams

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra

I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that’s true, then there really aren’t any stupid people. Just people running DOS.
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Edward Shepherd Mead

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov-1920

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.
James Magary

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

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

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
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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

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
**Bill Gates**

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

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer not advised are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they’re knocking off servers.
Richard Power

Macintosh – we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
Douglas Adams

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Werner von Braun

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
Doug Gwyn

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
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