Wisdom of Computers


640K ought to be enough for anybody.
   Bill Gates '81

Ever notice how fast Windows runs?
Neither did I.

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster.

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
   President and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

No electrons were harmed in the creation of this message.

THINK -- it gives you something to do while the computer is down.

To err is human. To really screw things up you need a computer.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
   Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

But what ... is it good for?
   Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
   commenting on the microchip.

With computers, every morning is the dawn of a new error.