“Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight”

“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”

“Ya, you can use it as a paperweight, you can use it as a doorstop but it was made for so much more, and when you use it for something it is not meant to be you insult me.”

“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes”

“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”

“Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.”