Quotes

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
-Clifford Stoll

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
-Edward Shepherd Mead

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

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

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
-Richard Dawkins

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

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
-Walter F Mondale

It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.
-Dale Dauten

There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
-J H Goldfuss

Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.
-June Kronholz

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

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
-Robert Orben

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
-Tim Berners

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
-Walter Mossberg

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
-Dale Dauten

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
-Janet Reno

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
-Louis Gerstner

The computer is a moron.
-Peter F Drucker

I want to put a ding in the universe.
-Steve Jobs

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
-Tim Berners

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-Andy Rooney

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

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
-Jean Rostand

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
-Meg Whitman

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
-Porterfield

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-Steve Wozniak

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
-Vannevar Bush