Computer and Technology Quotes for Engraving
Popular Statements About Computers and Technology"Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity."-- Anonymous "They say one of a baby's first non-verbal forms communication is pointing. Clicking must be somewhere just after that. Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools." -- Gene Brown "Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?" -- Anonymous "Relax, its only ONES and ZEROS!" -- Anonymous "See daddy? All the keys are in alphabetical order now." -- Anonymous "If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0." -- Anonymous "The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents." -- Anonymous "Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google." -- Anonymous "Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." -- Anonymous "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." -- Anonymous "Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell." -- Anonymous "I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly." -- Anonymous "Better to be a geek than an idiot." -- Anonymous "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." -- Emo Philips "Unix is computer-scientology, not computer science." -- Dave Mankins "If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." -- Scott Adams "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." -- Doug Larson "Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. -- Clifford Stoll "User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'" -- Dave Barry "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." -- Joseph Campbell "Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes." -- Dave Barry "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratcliffe "Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." -- Jeff Pesis "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." -- John F. Kennedy "It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate." -- Nicholas P. Negroponte "There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer." -- J.H Goldfuss "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software." -- Author Unknown "Home is where you hang your @." -- Author Unknown "Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn |








