| Quotes |
Authors |
| 'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label. | Jim Hopper |
| 'Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?' 'It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right?' | MacNelley in 'Shoe' |
| 1st Law of the Internet states that the answer is on the Internet. Therefore the quest is no longer "Where to find the answer" but "How to word the question". | Randi |
| 640K ought to be enough for anybody. | Bill Gates |
| A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. | Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless |
| A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. | Robert McNamara |
| 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, Mostly Harmless, 1992 |
| A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures. | Sheila M. Eby |
| A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. | Lamport, Leslie as quoted in CACM, June 1992 |
| A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? | Donald Trump |
| A friend of the Feline reports that Big Blue marketing and sales personnel have been strictly forbidden to use the word "mainframe." Instead, in an attempt to distance themselves from the dinosaur, they're to use the more PC-friendly phrase "large enterprise server." If that's the case, the Katt retorted, they should also refer to "dumb terminals" as "intelligence-challenged workstations." | Spencer Katt |
| A funny thing happened on the way to the electronic revolution: we all ended up sitting at desks and working at computer terminals, with wrist pain, sore necks and backs, and stiff joints. Now high tech can be a lot healthier. These simple stretching routines to be performed while sitting at a desk, standing at the copier, or talking on the phone improve circulation, relieve stress, and soothe sore muscles. No equipment necessary! | Bob Anderson, Stretching in the Office |
| A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. | Doug Linder |
| A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. | Albert Einstein |
| A mask of gold hides all deformities. | Thomas Dekker |
| A modern computer is an electronic wonder that performs complex mathematical calculations and intricate accounting tabulations in one ten-thousandth of a second -- and then mails out statements ten days late. | Paul Sweeney |
| A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. | Max Planck |
| A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricatural. Our world is a world of things.... What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable.... We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quakey. | Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, preface, 1945 |
| A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light. | Unknown |
| A problem well stated is a problem half solved. | Unknown |