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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of … Continue reading
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error. - Anon
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. - Rich Cook
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. - Anon
Everything that can be invented has been invented. (US Patents Office, 1899.) - Charles H. Duell
It’s so fast, it can do an infinite loop in thirty seconds. (On the Macintosh IIfx.) - Brian Bechtel
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards – and even then I have my doubts. - Eugene H. Spafford
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 Cringely
Smith & Wesson invented the first point and click interface. - Anon