If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Computers Quotes
640K ought to be enough for anybody. (1981)
For the computer security community, the moral is obvious: if you are designing a system whose functions include providing evidence, it had better be able to withstand hostile review.
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Choose any two.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’ Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
