Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand namely exactly nothing.

If I had done what I was programmed to do I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested but I went into a diversion programme and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.