"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Picasso, Pablo | computers | 2 bookmarks

"I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later."

Fink, William | computers | 0 bookmarks

"It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak."

Debord, Guy | computers | 1 bookmarks

"I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home."

Olsen, Kenneth | computers | 1 bookmarks

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

Borenstein, Nathanie | computers | 2 bookmarks

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."

Weinberger, Harry | computers | 2 bookmarks

"A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures."

Eby, Sheila M. | computers | 0 bookmarks

"Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed."

Boschert, Bob | computers | 1 bookmarks

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down"

Augustine, Norman | computers | 2 bookmarks

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

Harris, Sidney J. | computers | 4 bookmarks

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Watson, Thomas J. | computers | 1 bookmarks

"Control over computing belongs with users."

Allen, Brandt | computers | 1 bookmarks

"Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion."

Baudrillard, Jean | computers | 0 bookmarks

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

Asimov, Isaac | computers | 3 bookmarks

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

Barry, Dave | computers | 1 bookmarks

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila."

Ratliffe, Mitch | computers | 4 bookmarks

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

Lamport, Leslie | computers | 1 bookmarks

"Code is poetry."

Wordpress.org | computers | 2 bookmarks

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

Barry, Dave | computers | 0 bookmarks

"Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid."

Kelly, William M. | computers | 1 bookmarks

"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."

Kissinger, Henry | autobiography | 0 bookmarks

"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

Kissinger, Henry | goals | 1 bookmarks

"The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness."

Kissinger, Henry | loneliness | 1 bookmarks

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

Kissinger, Henry | adversity | 1 bookmarks

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Kissinger, Henry | constitutions | 0 bookmarks

"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

Kissinger, Henry | politics | 1 bookmarks

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

Kissinger, Henry | leadership | 0 bookmarks

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Kissinger, Henry | moderation | 1 bookmarks

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Kissinger, Henry | power | 0 bookmarks

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

Kissinger, Henry | experts | 0 bookmarks

"If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor."

Kissinger, Henry | advantage | 2 bookmarks

"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

Kissinger, Henry | crisis | 1 bookmarks

"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."

Kissinger, Henry | politics | 2 bookmarks

"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."

Kissinger, Henry | reliance | 1 bookmarks

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

Kissinger, Henry | alliances | 3 bookmarks

"We are all the President's men."

Kissinger, Henry | loyalty | 0 bookmarks

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

Kissinger, Henry | bores and boredom | 2 bookmarks

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

Kissinger, Henry | leadership | 2 bookmarks

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

Kissinger, Henry | leadership | 0 bookmarks

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

Kissinger, Henry | america | 1 bookmarks

"All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses."

Maclaren, Alexander | giving | 2 bookmarks

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle | friends and friendship | 34 bookmarks

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar | women | 40 bookmarks

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William | friends and friendship | 14 bookmarks

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard | friends and friendship | 20 bookmarks

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."

Johnson, Samuel | confidence | 7 bookmarks

"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. | change | 29 bookmarks

"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life."

Grayson, David | friends and friendship | 1 bookmarks

"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

Stevenson, Robert Louis | communication | 3 bookmarks

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. | speech | 9 bookmarks

"To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit."

Unknown, Source | friends and friendship | 12 bookmarks

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles | love | 13 bookmarks

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."

Robbins, Anthony | success | 10 bookmarks

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

Johnson, Samuel | friends and friendship | 2 bookmarks

"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."

Taylor, Jeremy | secrets | 1 bookmarks

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy | attitude | 43 bookmarks

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George | friends and friendship | 5 bookmarks

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | friends and friendship | 5 bookmarks

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. | friends and friendship | 9 bookmarks

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

Austen, Jane | money | 4 bookmarks