<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Computers - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63977]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to put a ding in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  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  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   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   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles 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 Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9591]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9582]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer is a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer is a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5098]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5078</guid></item></channel></rss>