Able Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

— Anonymous

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

— Joseph Weizenbaum

“Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!”

— Rafaa Khiari

Any powerful technology can be abused.

— K. Eric Drexler

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

— Charles Yu

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

— John von Neumann

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

— Anonymous

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

— Peter Drucker

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful…

— John von Neumann

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have…

— Massimo Vignelli

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

— Lou Gerstner