We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form -- has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

- Dee Hock

Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice -- a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

- Wendy Kaminer

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

- Isaac Asimov

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug." (The Mythical Man Month)

- Frederick Brooks, Jr.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

- Jack Lynch

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

- Unknown

Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.

- Unknown

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

- Robert Wilensky

The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.

- Paul Valery

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- Joseph Campbell

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

- Werner von Braun

If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

- Gerald Weinberg

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

- Pablo Picasso