Computers Quote by David Autor

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

— Konrad Zuse

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

— Robert Burchfield

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is…

— Tom Gilb

Computers don't make mistakes. People do.

— Anonymous

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error…

— Isaac Asimov

“A computer does two things, and two things only: it performs calculations and it remembers the results of those calculations.”

— John V. Guttag

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do…

— Agatha Christie

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

— Adam Osborne

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

— Michael Bloomberg

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

— Bill Gates

“Human error is not random. It results from basic human mental abilities and physical skills combined with the features of the tools being used,…

— Nancy G. Leveson