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A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable

Leslie Lamport

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind

Joseph Weizenbaum

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

On two occasions I have been asked,\\\"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?\\\" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

If there’s one thing that computers do well, it’s to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed.

Peter Coffee

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Nicholas Negroponte

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

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