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', CBC, 10-08-93) More computers quotes
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov More computers quotes
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 More computers quotes
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) More computers quotes
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 (InfoWorld magazine) More computers quotes
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
E. W. Dijkstra More computers quotes