“The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.”
Tim Berners-Lee
InternetFuture
Computer Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Computer Quotes
Read 200 of the best computer quotes from Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Donald Knuth and more on computers, programming, the internet and technology.
“The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.”
Tim Berners-Lee
InternetConnection
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
Isaac Asimov
ComputersFuture
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
Isaac Asimov
ComputersHonesty
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Pablo Picasso
QuestionsWit
“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
HumanityTechnology
“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.”
Ted Nelson
ComputersFunny
“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 V. Gerstner Jr.
HumanityDreams
“People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.”
Adam Osborne
MistakesFunny
“In short, software is eating the world.”
Marc Andreessen
SoftwareBusiness
“The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”
Marc Andreessen
JobsFuture
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.”
Jef Raskin
UsabilityFunny
“To err is human, and to blame it on a computer is even more so.”
Robert Orben
MistakesFunny
“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
Joseph Campbell
ComputersFunny
“Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.”
Clifford Stoll
CybersecurityFunny
“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
ComputersWit
“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”
Nicholas Negroponte
Digital LifeTechnology
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
Douglas Engelbart
Digital RevolutionHistory
“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. The trouble with computers is that you play with them!”
Richard Feynman
ComputersFunny
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Emo Philips
ChessFunny
“The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.”
Dave Barry
InternetFunny
“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”
Craig Bruce
HardwareSoftware
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
Martin Fowler
ProgrammingClean Code
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
Harold Abelson
ProgrammingClean Code
“Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.”
Seymour Cray
HardwareEngineering