“To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.†– Farmer’s Almanac
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded when you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers and nobody thinks of complaining.†– Jef Raskin
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.†– Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
“To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.†– Robert Orben
“If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would cost $100, get a million miles to the gallon and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.†– Robert X. Cringely
“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 1.5 tons†– Popular Mechanics Magazine, 1949