Computer Quotes

[wenwilder]

Humorous Quotations about Computers

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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If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.


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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead

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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
- Laws of Computer Programming, I

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Any given program costs more and takes longer.
- Laws of Computer Programming, II

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If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
- Laws of Computer Programming, III

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If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
- Laws of Computer Programming, IV

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Any program will expand to fill available memory.
- Laws of Computer Programming, V

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The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
- Laws of Computer Programming, VI

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Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
- Laws of Computer Programming, VII

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Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
- Laws of Computer Programming, VIII

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Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
- Laws of Computer Programming, IX

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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
- Laws of Computer Programming, X

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There's always one more bug.
- Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology

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If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.
- Lyall's Conjecture

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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- Weinberg's Second Law

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Having done programming myself this rings so true

[paulhiles]

"To err is human. To really mess things up requires a computer" - Unknown

"You'll never really learn to swear until you get a computer." - Unknown

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"But what ... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981

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