Computer Quotes

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[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop]. — Scott McNealy
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. — Bill Gates
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency… — Al Gore
I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance. — Terry Pratchett
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of… — Bryan Appleyard
Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do… — Brian Kernighan
The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope. — Mark Jason Dominus
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million… — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how… — Douglas Hofstadter
The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag. — Clive James
Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes… — Thomas Sowell
It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous,… — Philip E. Agre
This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web. — Amitabh Bachchan
When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room. — Tom Dunne
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong — James Gleick
I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on. — Charles Manson
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. — Ted Nelson
We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys… — Jeff Cooper

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