The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Guy Almes 

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson 

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Kenneth H. Olson  , President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Anonymous  , Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes: Technological Literacy for the 1990's, describing the difference between computer hardware and software

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford 

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA