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640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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 am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. - Dave Barry, 1994 in Miami Herald
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that will do them in. - Bradley\'s Bromide
If the automobile had followed the same development 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 Cringely in InfoWorld
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. - Anonymous
Never let a computer know you\'re in a hurry. - Anonymous
Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo The Future of Man
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers. - Jamais Cascio, 1995
The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today\'s complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you\'re a guy, you cannot have enough RAM. - Dave Barry Dave Barry in Cyberspace, 1996
The Internet [is] a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, people without lives. We don\'t care. We have each other....While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and--yes--shocking details about our CONFIG.SYS settings. - Dave Barry, 1994 in Miami Herald
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. - Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless, 1992
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there\'s no law against whacking them around a little. - Porterfield
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don\'t believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - DEC Chairman Ken Olson, 1977
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect....today\'s government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones. - Dave Barry Dave Barry in Cyberspace, 1996
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