{"topic":"computers","quotes":[{"quote":"The computing field is always in need of new cliches.","author":"Alan Perlis"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Andy Rooney"},{"quote":"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.","author":"Bill Gates"},{"quote":"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.","author":"Bradley's Bromide"},{"quote":"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?","author":"Clifford Stoll"},{"quote":"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.","author":"Doug Larson"},{"quote":"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.","author":"E. W. Dijkstra"},{"quote":"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.","author":"E. W. Dijkstra"},{"quote":"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.","author":"Edward Shepherd Mead"},{"quote":"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.","author":"Farmers' Almanac"},{"quote":"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.","author":"G. K. Chesterton"},{"quote":"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.","author":"Isaac Asimov"},{"quote":"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.","author":"Isaac Asimov"},{"quote":"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.","author":"James Magary"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Jef Raskin"},{"quote":"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.","author":"Joe Martin"},{"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.","author":"John Allen"},{"quote":"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.","author":"John C. Dvorak"},{"quote":"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.","author":"Ken Olsen"},{"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.","author":"Nathaniel Borenstein"},{"quote":"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.","author":"Pablo Picasso"},{"quote":"The computer is a moron.","author":"Peter Drucker"},{"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.","author":"Pierre Gallois"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Rick Cook"},{"quote":"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.","author":"Robert Orben"},{"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.","author":"Robert X. Cringely"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Stephen Hawking"},{"quote":"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.","author":"Unknown"},{"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.","author":"Unknown"},{"quote":"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.","author":"unknown"}]}