A computer terminal is not some clunky old television
with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind
and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from
Mostly Harmless)
-- Douglas Adams
There are three kinds of death in this world: there's heart death, there's
brain death, and there's being off the network.
-- Guy Almes
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and Unix.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological
society.
-- Isaac Asimov
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating
so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
-- Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
On two occasions I have been asked, Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into
the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?
-- Charles Babbage
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 S. Borenstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the
greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts
and of sciences.
-- Freeman Dyson
All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -- is
like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
-- Albert Einstein
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
-- Richard Feynman
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication
tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people
have nothing useful to say.
-- Lee Gomes, San Jose Mercury News
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
The most important thing in a programming language is the name. A language
will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very
good name, and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- Donald Knuth
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would
take many men many months to equal it.
-- Merle L. Meachman
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
To make a machine that will be proud of us.
-- Thinking Machines' motto
This is a crude version of a more advanced utility that has never been
written.
-- X-Windows xwud(1) man. page
