A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach that person to use the Internet, and they won't bother you for weeks. - Author Unknown
I like this proverb, but using it for a computer quote is also nice.
I love this list, but this one's the best.
Maybe they won't disturb you for a lifetime.
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
I just gotta update my blog.
It may give you hope.
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz
Very well said. One mistake in creating a program will result in a malfunction, and that mistake is very hard to fix.
Who needs nuclear weapons when you have the power of the Internet? - Leah Wakefield
It's so neat to convey our opinions about the Internet to others.
The Internet is so big, so powerful, and so pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. - Andrew Brown
Well said. It's something truly meaningful.
Nice and true! I really like these lines.
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
Ah, Berkeley. Yep, Berkeley.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. - Farmer's Almanac, 1978
So true, even 30 years later.
So true! Laugh out loud.
This is so true.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. - One of Murphy's Laws of Technology
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. - Rob Stampfli
The Newcomers
? Talk is cheap. Show me the code. - Linus Torvalds
? Without computers, man is nothing. - Author Unknown
The Contenders
I predict that the future world market for computers will be 5. - Thomas Watson Jr. (Head of IBM in the 1950s)
So funny to look back on it now.
No more fun can be wasted.
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette
That's true. Ladcliff, Zambia.
If the car industry had progressed as fast as the computer industry, then every Rolls-Royce would cost 1 cent, fit on the head of a pin, and go a million miles to the gallon. - Author Unknown
So true. You can get quantum computers, but you won't get quantum cars for a long time.
The computer is a moron. - Peter Drucker
Computers are the most important things in our world.