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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rick Cook

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.

Stephen Hawking

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

John F. Kennedy

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Sydney Harris

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."

Dave Barry

If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside

Robert Cringely

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis Gerstner

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

Sam Ewing

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

Andy Rooney

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Robert Orben

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Werner von Braun

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

John Pierce

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Steve Jobs

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are

Bill Gates

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare

Lane Olinghouse

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up

James Magary

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