Famous Computer Quotes
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Since the advent of computers and digital technology, there have been some funny, outrageous, prophetic and downright WRONG quotes about computers and technology. Let’s go down that winding path this morning!

I will just intersperse quotes with some images of quotes too! A mishmash of data, graphics and historical perspectives!

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than one-and-a-half tonnes.”
– Popular Mechanics, 1949

“I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last the year.”
– Chief Business Editor, Prentice Hall, 1957

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
– Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

“There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their home.”
– Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977.

“Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.”
– Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
– Brook’s Law

“An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.”
– Anonymous

“BUG, n.: An undesirable, poorly-understood undocumented feature.”
– The Devil’s Dictionary to Computer Studies

“640k is enough for anyone, and by the way, what’s a network?”
– William Gates III, President of Microsoft Corporation, 1984.

“Microcomputers are the tool of the 80’s. BASIC is the language that all of them use. So the sooner you learn BASIC, the sooner you will understand the microcomputer revolution.”
– 30 Hour BASIC Standard, 1981.

I want to change the world but they don’t give me root access.
– Unknown

And these are just a few of my favourite ones! There are literally hundreds of amazing quotes out there, and I as usual, have put a bunch of links below for you to search, should you need that perfect quote about computers!

The single best quote, ever, and ever so true even now, came from John F. Kennedy …..