Computer Error Quotes

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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

Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.