Computers Quotes

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

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.

You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.