Computers Quotes

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” Pablo Picasso

 

“The ultimate “computer,” our own brain, uses only ten watts of power, one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.” Paul Valery

 

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.” Gerald Weinberg

 

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.” Jack Lynch

 

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

 

“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

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.” Gerald Weinberg

 

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.” Jack Lynch

 

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

 

“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

 

“Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.” Unknown

 

“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” Unknown

 

“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

 

“The ultimate “computer,” our own brain, uses only ten watts of power, one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.” Paul Valery