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Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922First intelligible words spoken over the telephone (10 March 1876), as recorded in Bell’s Journal entry (10 March 1876)
If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man’s ethical formation, in man’s inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.
Pope Benedict XVI1927–2022Spe Salvi, encyclical, sec. 22 (30 November 2007)
- Morality
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.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
- Comedy
- Computers
Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.
Albert Camus1913–1960Editorial in Combat (8 August 1945), after Hiroshima; translated in Between Hell and Reason (1991)
- War & Peace
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. I, ch. 5.
- Democracy
And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do.
Vint Cerfborn 1943“Your Life: Vinton Cerf” (2016), p. 28
- Computers
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 111
- Science
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008Foreword to The Collected Stories (June 2000)
- Change
We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008We’ll Never Conquer Space (1960)
- Science
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Tim Cookborn 1960Q&A after Apple’s earnings call (24 April 2012)
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Terre des Hommes (1939)
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- Clever Jabs
- Computers
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- Clever Jabs
- Computers