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"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing."
Emo Philips
"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."
Janet Reno
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
Robert X. Cringely
"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."
Steve Wozniak
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Steve Wozniak
"That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
Larry Niven
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."
Eric Raymond
"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."
Steve Wozniak
"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."
Bill Clinton
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
Paul Ehrlich
"I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
Stephen Hawking
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
Tim Berners-Lee
"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."
Tim Berners-Lee
"I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer."
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