Apropos to nothing and everything:

My view of Microsoft is that they had two goals in the last 10 years: to copy the Macintosh and to copy Lotus' success in the applications business. And they accomplished those goals. Now, they're kind of lost.
- Steve Jobs

We are the salvation of the world. If you market the tools for salvation, you have to be incompetent not to make money.
- Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel

Data is flying around, across and through your systems at speeds the Jetsons could appreciate, but has any of this technology let you go home one minute early? I doubt it.
- Richard Santalesa

Programmers often neglect proper consideration of the weak link in the software: the person who will be using it.
- Leonard Lee

We fear what we do not understand, and so ordinary people fear computers more than they fear filing cabinets.
- F.J.M. Laver

Word cannot edit the unknown.
- Wise error message from Word 6.0

Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records . . .
- Hamlet, experiencing a system crash in 1603

A fine calculation you are making! It is plain you don't know the ins and outs of the printers . . . .
- Don Quixote, dealing with an early interfacing problem, as quoted by Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

We know that the most advanced computer in the world does not have a brain as sophisticated as that of an ant. True, we could say that of many of our relatives, but we only have to put up with them at weddings or special occasions.
- Woody Allen

and some good news:

With computers getting more popular and complex, industry experts predict a growing need for computer nerds. In fact, one industry group forecasts a nerd gap in the coming years as demand outstrips supply.
- James McIntyre