Computer Error Quotes

#1. Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

Robert Burchfield

#2. The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

Vikas Swarup

#4. I don't think I know your name.'
'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know.

Patrick Flanery

#6. Be glad. Celebrate! Lose your mindless fear, and take courage today. No, don't ever be afraid, no matter what's happened to you before. That's right, don't be afraid, no matter what you may see coming. Take courage because Christ was crucified for you.2 Catherine of Siena, Letters

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Shawn Wayans

#8. The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

Kerry Packer

#9. Bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

Barbara Tuchman

#10. RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

Dave Barry

#11. I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Agatha Christie

#12. A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

Rick Warren

#13. At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

Tom Gilb

#14. We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

Vernor Vinge

#15. When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.'

Benjamin R. Smith

#16. They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

Philip Yancey

#17. Jenny's absence seems to describe her better than her presence does; she is a looming vessel of her own withholding.

Emily Ruskovich

#18. In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

Martin Rees

#19. I'm not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#20. Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

B.R. Ambedkar

#21. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Bill Gates