Computer Quotes

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957

"But what...is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC

"Hey, I know this! This is Unix!" - Jurassic Park

"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple." - Byte, December 1994

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" - Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." - Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes

"From space, I saw the fragile blue earth without borders." - Onizuka

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." - Doug Larson

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Farmer's Almanac, 1978

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." - Clifford Stoll

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." - Joseph Campbell

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is." - Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso

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

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." - Jeff Pesis

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little." - Eric Porterfield

"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

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear." - John C. Dvorak