Quotes On Computers

Bob (on Slashdot): Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
Delexa Jones: The number of the beast - vi vi vi
AndrewTanenbaum: "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to chose from."
PhilipGreenspun: BestOfBreed solutions: A bunch of inferior programs huddling together for warmth around the dying embers of Windows NT.
RogerNeedham: If you think encryption solves your security problems then you don't understand encryption and you don't understand security.
RogerNeedham: The best research is done with a shovel, not tweezers
Anonymous: Technology is an enabler, not a solution in and of itself. It provides far reaching implications beyond an adequate solution.
BjarneStroustrup: I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell

"Where is the wisdom? Lost in the knowledge. Where is the knowledge? Lost in the information." -- T.S. Eliot

"Where is the information? Lost in the data. Where is the data? Lost in the #@$%?!& database." -- JoeCelko

These submitted by KipLubliner

"Though the grammars, aesthetics, and even the jargon of this rather ephemeral art form have yet to be fixed, there is a quiet understanding among those working in the front lines of software design that they are participating in the most vital means of expression in our time".

-- Steven Levy, InsanelyGreat:The Life and Times of Macintosh The Computer That Changed Everything

"The street has its own uses for technology." - WilliamGibson