Quote-of-the-day For Info Tech

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web .... Now even my cat has its own page.

~ Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

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, Business @ The Speed of Thought

[clementi]

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 Hawking (1942 - )

[clementi]

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

~ Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

[crazygolfer]

Quote:

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

~ Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

~ Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005

[clementi]

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

~ Penn Jillette (1955 - ), in a Compuserve chat

[clementi]

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

~ Clifford Stoll

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

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

[crazygolfer]

Quote-of-the-Day:

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

~ Robert Orben

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

~ Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

[clementi]

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

~ Bradley's Bromide

[clementi]

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

~ Edward Shepherd Mead

[clementi]

Quote-of-the-Day:

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

~ E. W. Dijkstra (Dutch Computer Scientist)

[worldangel]

Quote:

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle 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 X. Cringely (Technology Journalist)

[clementi]

Quote-of-the-Day:

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

~ Isaac Asimov (Novelist)

[clementi]

Quote-of-the-Day:

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

~ Isaac Asimov (Novelist)

[worldangel]

Quote:

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

~ Unknown

[crazygolfer]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

~ Joe Martin (Cartoonist)

[worldangel]

Quote-of-the-Day:

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

~ Unknown

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

~ Farmers' Almanac

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

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

~ James Magary

[clementi]

Quote:

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

[clementi]

Quote:

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

~ John Allen, A network called 'Internet'

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

~ John C. Dvorak (American columnist)

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

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

~ Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

[clementi]

Quote:

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

~ Pierre Gallois (Geopolitician)

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.

~ Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures & Program Design

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.

~ Charles Foundyller of Daratech

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that exchanges the traffic back and forth, big or small, we all need each other.

~ Pete Ashdown, Utah Geek Dinner Speech

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-of-the-Day:

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 (Computer Specialist)

[worldangel]

Computer Quote-Of-The-Day:

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

~ Clifford Stoll

[worldangel]

Computer Quote Of The Day:

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

~ Emo Philips

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

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

[crazygolfer]

Computer Quote of The Day:

[crazygolfer]

Computer Quote of the Day:

"Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's good that we have museums to document them."

~ Bill Gates

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

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

[crazygolfer]

Computer Quote of the day:

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

~ Angela Merkel

[crazygolfer]

Computer Quote of the Day:

The Internet is a mirror of the population that uses it - in reference to the proliferation of fraud, social abuse, and other online crimes.

If you stand in front of a mirror and you don

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

~ John Perry Barlow

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

~ John Perry Barlow

[clementi]

Quote of the day:

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

[clementi]

Quote of the day:

I used to think that Cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

~ Bruce Sterling

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

~ Dave Barry

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

~ Elbert Hubbard

[clementi]

Quote of the Day:

Men have become the tools of their tools.

~ Henry David Thoreau

[clementi]

Quote of the day:

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

~ Linus Torvalds

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

~ Mitchell Kapor

[worldangel]

Computer Quote of the Day:

The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

~ Alan Kay

[clementi]

Quote of the Day:

The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.

~ Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995