This ended up in my mailbox. I wouldn't have forwarded it, but the first
one made me think of Pamela B. (tequila) ;^)
Fascinating Quotes about the Computer
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention
in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and
tequila.
Mitch Ratliffe
A human being is a computer's way of making another computer.
Yes, we are their sex organs.
Solomon Short
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ...and
the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember
that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you.
Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a
reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM maintenance manual, 1925
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
A computer is like an Old Testament god, with alot of rules and
no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on
a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
Sam Ewing
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to
virgins.
Robert Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
It was not so very long ago that people thought that
semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips
were very small snack foods.
Geraldine Ferraro
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what
it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
Marvin Minsky
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
J.H.Goldfuss
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass
destruction.
Janet Reno, U.S. politician
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
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
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
Wow! They've got the Internet on computers now!
Homer Simpson
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