Computers Quotes
“Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.”
“It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.”
-- Bill Budge
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
-- Isaac Asimov
“The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”
-- Peter Drucker
“I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.”
-- Jhumpa Lahiri
“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'”
-- Peter Drucker
“Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'”
-- Anna Chlumsky