Best Quotes about Computers

If every atom in the Universe were a monkey producing a billion keystrokes a second from the Big Bang until today, it is still very unlikely that any monkey would get as far as "slings and arrows" in Hamlet?s most famous soliloquy. Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on.

1) A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe

2) 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

3) There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence. ~Jeremy S. Anderson

4) Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. ~Michael Sinz

5) To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ~Farmer’s Almanac, 1978

6) Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown

7) The Internet is so big, so powerful and so pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown

8) If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ~One of Murphy’s Laws of Technology

9) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a ’fix’ of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli

10) My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett