640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates (Born 1955)  , Microsoft Founder, in 1981

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
David Ferrier 

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
Anonymous 

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
Michael Meissner 

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) 

Guide to understanding a net addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on Usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of Usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of Usenet.
Anonymous 

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
D. H. Lawrence 

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that Netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
Rob Stampfli