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Computer Quotes by Philip Greenspun
- We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than…
- Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information…
- Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find…
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- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- 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
- I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
- Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. — Erykah Badu
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker
- 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
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard
- The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry