Computers
cur-mudg-eon (cur-muj’un), n. [origin unknown] 1. archaic: a crusty, ill-tempered, churlish old man. 2. modern: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner.
“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
“Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.”
— Isaac Asimov
“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”
— Paul Ehrlich
“The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.”
— Al Goodman
“The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against whacking them around a bit.”
— Eric Porterfield
“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
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
— E W Dijkstra
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
— James Magary
“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee – that will do them in.”
— Bradley’s Bromade
“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
— Nathaniel Borenstein
