Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-Albert Einstein
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
-Aldous Huxley
"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."
-AL Goodman
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-B. F. Skinner Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.-Clive James
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
-Jeff Pesis
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
-John F. Kennedy
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
-Karl Marx
"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."
-Leonard Brandwein
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
-Mark Kennedy
Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-NASA in 1965
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-Pablo Picasso
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
-Paul Ehrlich
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 like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
-Sam Ewing
“Technology has the shelf life of a banana.”
-Scott McNealy
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-Steve Wozniak
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
-Sir William Bragg
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Alva Edison
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
-Tim O'Reilly
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-Winston Churchill
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