Subject: Things » Computers

The only people making money these days are the ones who sell computer paper.

The main reason I don’t cheat on my girlfriend is so I can go for a shower without taking my phone, laptop and iPad with me.

British comedian

If you can’t navigate a one-level, five-item phone tree, you didn’t need a computer anyway.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Any program will expand to fill available memory.

At some point, the computer industry decided if you have an e-mail address, you must have some kind of penis problem.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian, television writer/producer & radio host

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

comedian, commentator, radio host, reporter & writer

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime.


Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.

Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

Facetime fulfills a secret human desire: to mostly look at yourself while talking to other people.

(1982 – ) American comedian & actress

Users: Computer users are divided into three types: Novice users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate users: people who don't know how to fix their computer after they've just pressed a key that broke it. Expert users: people who break other people's computers.

User-Friendly: Of or pertaining to any feature, device or concept that makes perfect sense to its programmer.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

(1950 – ) astronomer, author & computer security consultant

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let’s take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

There’s always one more bug.