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You can lead a computer to the Superhighway but you can't make it think.

Des Waller

Computers are not intelligent. They just think they are.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

program (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.

You can lead a computer to the Superhighway but you can't make it think.

Des Waller

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1958

Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.

program (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.

You can lead a computer to the Superhighway but you can't make it think.

Des Waller

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer science professor

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.

Dialog Brochure

Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.

Peter D. Moore

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Saul Alinsky

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca

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

A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.

Unknown

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen W. Hawking

When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.

Scott Mcneely

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis Gerstner

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Robert Orben

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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