Re-Start
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso
Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.
– Sam Ewing
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
– Janet Reno
That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer.
– Paul Leary
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
– Robert X. Cringely
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
– Homer Simpson
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.
– Edward Tufte
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
– Bill Gates, 1981
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need.
– Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
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Forgive me for buying into Carlin’s pessimism. I usually don’t…
