Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
-Walter Mossberg


Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
-Clifford Stoll


The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
-John Perry Barlow


I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
-Stephen W. Hawking


There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
-Charles Sanders Pierce


If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-Arthur C. Clarke


Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
-Edward Shepherd Mead


To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
-Robert Orben


Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-Andy Rooney


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard


Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
-Mitchell Kapor


The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
-Alan Kay


Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.
-Michael Rothschild


The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
-Isaac Asimov


A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
-Mitch Ratliffe


What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
-Jacques Cousteau


By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
-Guy Kawasaki


The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
-Bill Gates


Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-Edsgar W. Dijkstra


If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
-Robert X Cringely


For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.
-Neil Gershenfeld


You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.
-Antoine De Saint-exupery


Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?