Memorable Computer Error Quotes

25 result(s) for Computer Error Quotes.
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
Paul R. Ehrlich
"The computer is down, but that doesn't affect my total incompetence."
Edward Abbey
"We should all know that blindly following the advice of experts is a huge mistake. Experts are right most of the time, but not always. Computer models are the same. They are usually right, but sometimes are off by a great deal."
Matt Ridley
"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may not be what you had in mind."
Joseph Weizenbaum
"The difference between science and science fiction is that science makes predictions that are testable, whereas science fiction is free to make anything up. Computer models are somewhere in between."
Freeman Dyson
"All that is wrong with the world could be fixed by a generous donation of ninjas. Seriously, terrorists would think twice about kidnapping schools if there were ninjas hidden in the rafters."
Chelsea Handler
"It's ridiculous to repeat ancient history when computers will repeat it for you."
Daniel J. Boorstin
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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
Sydney J. Harris
"I hate this machine, I wish that they'd sell it. It won't do what I want, but only what I tell it."
Unknown
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
Charles Babbage
"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
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton
"The best prophet of the future is the past."
Lord Byron
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."
Ada Lovelace
"As soon as we started programming, we found out that it was debugging. Debugging was rather difficult. "
Maurice Wilkes
"The computer is your only friend."
Captain Kangaroo
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
Alan Turing
"Hardware: the parts of a computer system that can be kicked."
Unknown
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."
John Johnson
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"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
Alan Perlis
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
"It's not a bug – it's an undocumented feature."
Unknown
"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."
Benjamin Stolberg

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