640K ought to be enough for anybody. (1981)
Computers Quotes
For the computer security community, the moral is obvious: if you are designing a system whose functions include providing evidence, it had better be able to withstand hostile review.
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Choose any two.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’ Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The government wants to force us to ship a browser made by a leading competitor, Netscape, with every copy of Windows – a demand that would benefit only Netscape, not consumers. Such a demand is both unprecedented and unreasonable. It’s like ordering Ford to sell autos fitted with Chrysler engines.
