The Fun at Work Café - Computer Fun at Work

Joys of Computers & Computer Systems That Give You Fun at Work

Computers can solve all kinds of workplace problems except the unemployment problem they create.
- Laurence J. Peter

The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
- Sydney J. Harris

The most useless computer tasks are the most fun to do.
- Sutin's Law

The bigger the bore, the greater the knowledge of computers.
- Unknown wise person

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- Werner von Braun

In the computer world hardware is something that you can hit with a hammer - software is something that you can only curse at.
- Unknown wise computer expert

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
- Steve Polyak

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it.
- Unknown wise person

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennoubled and no one dares crticise it.
— Pierre Gallois

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
- Joseph Weizenbaum

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- from 1978 Farmer's Almanac

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
- Walter Mossberg

Some things were never meant to be solved.
- Unknown wise person in response to above computer question

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.
— Stanton Delaplane

Men have become the tools of their tools.
— Henry David Thoreau

Do you believe in computer dating? Only if the computers really love each other.
— Groucho Marx

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
— Rita Mae Brown

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.
— Stockard Channing

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.
— Jean Baudrillard

Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is not as efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.
— Jeremy Campbell

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
— J. G. Ballard

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
— Gerald M. Edelman

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
— Jean Baudrillard

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
— Alexander Cockburn

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
— Lech Walesa