Top Ten Quirky Quotations About the Internet and Computers

The Top Ten

1 Now we have the World Wide Web (the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for). (Douglas Adams)

2 The email of the species is deadlier than the male. (Stephen Fry)

3 To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer. (Anonymous)

4 A modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. (Sydney Brenner)

5 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)

6 You can't retrieve your life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it). (Nora Ephron)

7 Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm': 'laugh quietly to myself'. It's more honest. (Demetri Martin)

8 We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now thanks to the internet, we know this is not true. (Robert Wilensky)

9 Conjunctivitus.com is a site for sore eyes. (Tim Vine)

10 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. (Pablo Picasso)

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