Computer Phrases

Phrases

• A bear of very little brain
• Are you a man or a mouse?
• As cute as a bug's ear
• As poor as a church mouse
• As quiet as a mouse
• As snug as a bug in a rug
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Bits per second
• Bitten by the bug
• Blue screen of death
• Brain bucket
• Brain candy
• Brain dead
• Brain drain
• Brain dump
• Brain fade
• Brain fart
• Brain picker
• Brain teaser
• Brain wave
• Bricks and clicks
• Bug off
• Bug out
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat and mouse game
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Coming to a screen near you
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Core dump
• Core technology
• Crash programme
• Cut and paste
• Dark Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Data archaeology
• Data warehousing
• Death by PowerPoint
• Deep Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• Deep web (The part of the WWW not visible via standard search engines)
• Desktop philanthropy
• Digital divide
• Digital leader
• Does not compute (A catchphrase from Lost In Space)
• Double click
• Dream machine
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• E-business solutions (IBM advertising slogan)
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Empowering the Internet Generation (Cisco advertising slogan)
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• 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)
• Game brain
• Garbage in, garbage out
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. (A catchphrase from Six Million Dollar Man)
• Get with the program
• Getting things done (AmeriCorps national service program advertising slogan)
• Global search
• Got it on the brain
• Got milk? (California Milk Processor Board advertising slogan)
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Graphical user interface
• Grip of death
• Has it changed your life yet? (Compaq advertising slogan)
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Hazy information
• Here I come to save the day (A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse)
• Hi tech
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hidden Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• High tech
• I think, therefore IBM (IBM advertising slogan)
• Indian file
• Inside information
• Intel inside (Intel advertising slogan)
• Intelligence everywhere (Motorola advertising slogan)

• Invisible Web (the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine)
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's better with the butterfly (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• It's good to play together (Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan)
• It's not a bug, it's a feature
• It's the Internet that logs onto you (SBC-Yahoo! DSL advertising slogan)
• June bug
• Klunk! Klick, every trip (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Lame brain
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Log off
• Log on
• Log out
• Love bug
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Machine readable
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mickey Mouse organisation
• Mighty Mouse (Nickname of Damon Stoudamire)
• Millennium bug
• Mine of information
• 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
• On the brain
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Packet sniffer
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Power without the price (Atari advertising slogan)
• Put your brain in gear
• Rage against the machine
• Rank and file
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Rubbish in rubbish out
• Safe mode
• Screen grab
• Screen time
• Scroll down
• Sensitive information
• Sex machine
• Silver screen
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Single file
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Star of stage and screen
• Star of the silver screen
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Surf the net
• Surfing the Internet
• Technology the world calls on (Northern Telecom advertising slogan)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Information Superhighway
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Internet of things
• The Machine (Nickname of Sasha Vujacic)
• The Mouse (Nickname of Bruce Strauss)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The big screen
• The internet for a tenner a month (Demon Internet Ltd advertising slogan)
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• The small screen
• The top of the programme
• The ultimate driving machine (BMW advertising slogan)
• Think different (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions? (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Tim Bug (Nickname of Tim Hardaway)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Too much information
• Virtual reality
• Want a better Internet? You belong at America Online (AOL advertising slogan)
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Where do you want to go today? (Microsoft advertising slogan)
• White heat of technology
• Wolfman Jack (Pseudonym of disk jockey Robert Weston Smith)
• World Wide Web
• Your friend in the digital age (COX Communications advertising slogan)
• Your potential, our passion (Microsoft advertising slogan)

Related

• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• For the rest of us (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• 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