Technology/Computer Quotes

 

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris


As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws. ~Scott Adams ("Dogbert")


All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ~Mark Kennedy


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923


Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~Al Boliska


I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~Author Unknown


"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit."


"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry." -- Anonymous


Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.


The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown


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


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 haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown


I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. ~Author Unknown


The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra


There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown


There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ~J.H. Goldfuss


Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. ~Author Unknown


Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Author: Jean Rostand


I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.


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


One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse


They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.
-- Milton Berle


The only way to make your PC go faster is to throw it out a window.
-- Robert Paul


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