Computer Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts–those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence–then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.”
– Jason Lee Miller

“Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.’
– Jason Lee Miller

“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.”
– Jeff Atwood

“Hardware:  the parts of a computer that can be kicked.”
– Jeff Pesis

“There are two major products that came out of Berkeley:  LSD and UNIX.  We do not believe this to be a coincidence.”
– Jeremy S. Anderson

“Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.”
– John Carmack

“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
– John F. Kennedy

“After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.”
– John Pierce

“Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance.”
– Jon Franklin

“If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong.  Your knowledge today does not have much value beyond a couple of years.  Your value is what you can learn and how easily you can adapt to the changes this profession brings so often.”
– Jose M. Aguilar

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
– Joseph Campbell

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

“Computers, huh?  I’ve heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes…. I don’t know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.”
– King Of Queens

“Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.”
– Kreitzberg

“I think it’s a new feature.  Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.”
– Larry Wall

“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.”
– Leo Cherne

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”
– Linus Torvalds

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.”
– Marcus Dolengo

“Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system; the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.”
– Mary Shaw

“The best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.”
– Matthew Austern

“Your computer is a backup of your soul, a multi-layered, menu-driven representation of who you are, who you care about, and how you sin.”
– Michael Marshall

“Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique.”
– Milt Bryce

“There is only one problem with common sense; it’s not very common.”
– Milt Bryce

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”
– Mitch Ratcliffe

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
– Mitchell Kapor

“Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”
– Nathan Myhrvold 

“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.  That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals.  We cause accidents.”
– Nathaniel Borenstein

“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure.  Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.”
– Nathaniel S. Borenstein

“Computing is not about computers any more.  It is about living.”
– Nicholas Negroponte

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