“There are two ways of constructing a software design.  One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” - C.A.R. Hoare

“Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck.” - Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003

"If Google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own Microsoft." - Author Unknown

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer." - John R Searls.

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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees.  That'll do them in.  - Author Unknown

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 Hawking

 

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. - Ted Nelson

“They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.” - Janet Reno 

“Just remember: you’re not a ‘dummy,’ no matter what those computer books claim.  The real dummies are the people who–though technically expert–couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.” - Walter Mossberg