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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
Usenet is the toilet of the internet. You are just a turd swirling around in the
bowl, headed down the drain. The rest of us ride around in little boats
sanitizing after every flush.
- Kali
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea: massive, difficult
to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts
of excrement when you least expect it.
- Gene Spafford
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.
- Rich Cook
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
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will
do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently
programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world
that just don't add up.
- James Magary
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way.
This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining.
- Jeff Raskin
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up
there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by
accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause
accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery.
But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow
ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
- Pierre Gallois
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a
Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode
once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
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