Famous Quotes
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
- Norman Ralph Augustine on Computers
- One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
- Steve Case on Computers
- One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
- Jon Postel on Computers
- Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
- Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
- Philip Emeagwali on Computers
- Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
- Richard Dooling on Computers
- Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
- James Fallows on Computers
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov on Computers
- People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
- Mstislav Rostropovich on Computers
- People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
- Stephen Root on Computers
- People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
- Marc Andreessen on Computers
- People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
- Eric Schmidt on Computers
- People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
- Bruce Schneier on Computers
- People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
- Adam Osborne on Computers
- People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
- Donald Knuth on Computers
- Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- Richard Dawkins on Computers
- Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
- Arthur C. Clarke on Computers
- Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
- Jef Raskin on Computers
- Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
- William Shatner on Computers
- Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
- Bill Gates on Computers
- Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
- Linus Torvalds on Computers
- Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
- Charles C. Mann on Computers
- So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
- Thomas Dolby on Computers
- So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
- Stephen Wolfram on Computers
- Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
- Something else has happened with computers.
- Seth Lloyd on Computers
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
- Kevin Mitnick on Computers
- Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
- Ray Kurzweil on Computers
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
- Marc Andreessen on Computers
- That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
- Lennart Nilsson on Computers
- That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
- Jack White on Computers
- The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
- The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
- David Smith on Computers
- The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker on Computers
- The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
- Douglas Engelbart on Computers
- The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
- Adam Osborne on Computers
- The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
- Ted Nelson on Computers
- The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
- Kevin Kelly on Computers
- The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
- Adam Osborne on Computers
- The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.
- Kirsty Gallacher on Computers
- The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!
- Sumner Redstone on Computers
- The internet is not for sissies.
- Paul Vixie on Computers
- The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
- The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry on Computers
- The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker on Computers
- The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
- Alvin Toffler on Computers
- The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
- Eugene Jarvis on Computers
- The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
- John Hawkes on Computers
- The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
- Major Owens on Computers
- The power of the computer is starting to spread.
- Bill Budge on Computers
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