Computers Quotes, Sayings about PC - Page 2

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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
- Dave Barry

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Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
- Peter F. Drucker

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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.
- James Magary

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Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
- Ray Kurzweil

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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding understanding is not wisdom.
- Clifford Stoll

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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
- Adam Osborne

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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

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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

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
- Bill Gates

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

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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft … and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
- Werner

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov

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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
- Ted Nelson

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I can only imagine the deprivation and loneliness you will feel from a lack of human companionship when your 1000 free AOL hours run out.
- Nate B

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There are two distinctive classes of people today; those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars a piece.
- Dave Barry

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I sit looking at this damn computer screen all day long, day in and day out, week after week, and think: Man, if I could just find the ‘on’ switch.
— Zachary Good

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

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Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
- Jeff Pesis

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Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
- Sam Ewing

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Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
- Donald Knuth

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That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.
- Paul Leary

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me.
- Emo Philips

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