Do not fold, bend, or mutilate
- International Business Machines, CORP. Computer card message, 1960s
There are only two kinds of computer users: those who have lost data in a crash, and those who will lose data in a crash.
- Bob LeVitus. Dr. Macintosh: Tips, Techniques, and Advice on Mastering the Macintosh, 2, 1989
The Tarzan Principle: Don’t let go of the first vine until the next one is firmly in your grasp.
- Peter H. Lewis. On replacing one’s computer system, “When Reliability Is Most Important,” New York Times, 16 July 1989
The computer is no better than its program.
- Elting E. Morison. Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 4, 1966
In creating the thinking machine, man has made the last step in submission to mechanization; and his final abdication before this product of his own ingenuity has iven him a new object of worship: a cybernetic god.
- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). The Transformations of Man, 7-3, 1956
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olsen (1926-). Digital Equipment Corp. president. Speech before the Convention of the World Future Society, Boston, 1977
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
The electronic computer is to individual privacy what the machine gun was to the horse cavalry.
- Alan W. Scheflin (1942-) and Edward M. Option, Jr. (1936-) The Mind Manipulators: A Non-Fiction Account, 12, 1978
The exploding arsenal of electronics-cellular telephones, fax machines, VCRs, satellite dishes, computers with modems-demonstrated a trend for technology to become more compact, portable, versatile and inexpensive. As such, the new machines seemed to be weapons the citizens could wield against the state as readily as the state could use them on the citizen.
- Scott Shane. Dismantling Utopia, 1994. In Jonathan Kirsch, “How a Real ‘Information Revolution’ Doomed the USSR,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1994
