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Computer Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders…
- Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the…
- FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now…
- I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.
- Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science…
- Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
More Computer Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. — Dave Barry
- A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't… — Lech Walesa