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Quotes About Communication

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
~ Alan Perlis
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
~ Neil Postman
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
~ John Tukey
Why am I arguing with a computer?
~ Edge
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
~ Rory Bremner
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
~ Bertrand Meyer
The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.
~ Bootsy Collins
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
~ Fred Brooks
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
~ Dave Barry
I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.
~ John Paul DeJoria
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'
~ Dave Barry
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
~ Brian Eno
I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.
~ Joe Arpaio
I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.
~ Kirk Douglas
Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.
~ Linus Torvalds
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
~ Alan Cooper
The Internet? We are not interested in it
~ Bill Gates
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
~ Stanley Donwood
We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
~ Richard Branson
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
~ David Mamet
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.
~ Roger Ebert
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.
~ Charles Simonyi
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
~ Douglas Coupland