Famous Computer Quotes

Knowledge

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
– Albert Einstein
   

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
– Stephen Hawking
   

“The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.”
– Socrates
   

“Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
   

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
– Confucius
   

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
   

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
– Mitchell Kapor
 

Users

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”
– Linus Torvalds
   

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”
– P. Williams
   

“Where is the ‘any’ key?”
– Homer Simpson, in response to the message, “Press any key”
   

“Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.”
– Donald Knuth