1. A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.-Joseph Weizenbaum
2. Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows.-Anonymous
3. The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.-Marc Andreessen
4. There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.-Anonymous
5. Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.-Jef Raskin
6. Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be to people who didn’t understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.-Orson Scott Card
7. Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.-Steve Jobs
8. Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.-Arlaina Tibensky
9. It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.-Nicholas P. Negroponte
10. Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.-Ted Nelson
11. The similarities between humans and computers are more numerous than the differences.-P.A. Scott
12. The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.-Sherry Turkle
13. Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.-Greg Perry
14. Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.-Frederick Lenz
15. It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.-Craig Bruce
16. Computers no longer interface with humans they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.-Alan Cooper
17. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.-Bill Gates
18. Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.-Anonymous
19. Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.-Tom DeMarco
20. The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.-Sydney J. Harris
21. If you don’t know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.-Richard Dawkins
22. The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.-Anonymous
23. It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.-Clive James
24. The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.-Brian Eno
25. The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.-Wernher von Braun
25. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.-Steve Wozniak
26. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.-Mitch Ratcliffe
27. Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.-Stan Augarten
28. 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.-Andy Rooney
29. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.-Albert Einstein
30. Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.-Joseph Campbell