"The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us."

"Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life."

"Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book."

"No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work."

"I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it."

"Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it."

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."