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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Dave Parnas

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Larry Ellison

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis Gerstner

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

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

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Nicholas Negroponte

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

Defect-free software does not exist.

Wietse Venema

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Miguel de Icaza

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Doug Larson

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

Dave Barry

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

Bruce Scheneier

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Eugene Jarvis

I just became one with my browser software.

Bill Griffith

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

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Bill Gates

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Jack Welch