Computers Phrases

Phrases

• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Bits per second
• Bricks and clicks
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Core dump
• Cut and paste
• Data archaeology
• Data warehousing
• Death by PowerPoint
• Does not compute (A catchphrase from Lost In Space)
• Double click
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• E-business solutions (IBM advertising slogan)
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Expanding possibilities (Hewlett Packard advertising slogan)
• Fly by wire
• For the rest of us (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Fuzzy logic
• GNU is Not Unix (Free Software Foundation advertising slogan)
• Garbage in, garbage out
• Global search
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Graphical user interface
• Grip of death
• Has it changed your life yet? (Compaq advertising slogan)
• Hi tech
• High tech
• I think, therefore IBM (IBM advertising slogan)
• Intel inside (Intel advertising slogan)
• Intelligence everywhere (Motorola advertising slogan)

• It's better with the butterfly (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• It's good to play together (Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan)
• Log off
• Log on
• Log out
• Machine readable
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mouse potato
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• No manager ever got fired for buying IBM (IBM advertising slogan)
• Number crunching
• Off line
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Packet sniffer
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Power without the price (Atari advertising slogan)
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Rubbish in rubbish out
• Safe mode
• Screen grab
• Scroll down
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Surf the net
• Surfing the Internet
• The Information Superhighway
• The Sims (video game title)
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think different (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Virtual reality
• Where do you want to go today? (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• World Wide Web
• Your potential, our passion (Microsoft advertising slogan)