Computers Quotes

BASIC – A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

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 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1/2 tons. (1949)

Computers aren’t intelligent, they only think they are.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man. (Statement on UNIVAC exhibit, New York World’s Fair, 1964)

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.

If I have seen further than my peers, it is because I have stood on their toes.