"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

Gary Coleman, American Actor

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"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

Eugene Jarvis, American Scientist

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"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."

Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian Scientist

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"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."

Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress

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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

Robert McNamara, American Public Servant

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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

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"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."

Alain Robert, French Athlete

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"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."

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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."

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"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."

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"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."

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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."

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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."

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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."

"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."

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"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."

"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."

"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."

"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."

"The optimum committee has no members."

"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."

"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."

"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."

"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."

"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."