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There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
- Anon. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
- Wernher von Braun The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- E. W. Dijkstra We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.
- Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming" A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Ratcliffe To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
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