Men Will Begin to Think Like Computers

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If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

Whenever there are great strains or changes in the economic system, it tends to generate theories which then find their way into the legislative channels. – David Stockman

Auditors are the people who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded. – Paul Rubin

Accountants can be smarter than anybody else or more ambitious or both, but essentially they are bean counters – their job is to serve the operation. They can’t run the ship. – Robert Townsend

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

To err is human but really foul up require a computer. – Paul Ehrlich

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris

The computer revolution is the most advertised revolution in world history. Yet one of the funny things about it is that we probably will still underestimate its impact. – Herman Kahn