Famous Quotes
- The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
- Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
- 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 on Computers
- The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Computers
- The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
- Tim Berners-Lee on Computers
- The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
- Fareed Zakaria on Computers
- The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
- Colin Greenwood on Computers
- Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.
- Wolfgang Petersen on Computers
- There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
- Steven Levy on Computers
- There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
- Richard P. Feynman on Computers
- There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
- Stephen Hawking on Computers
- There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
- Stephen Hawking on Computers
- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
- Dave Winer on Computers
- There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.
- Jason Schwartzman on Computers
- There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
- Howard Aiken on Computers
- They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
- Sherman Austin on Computers
- They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
- Ted Nelson on Computers
- Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
- Jean Rostand on Computers
- This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
- Steve Jobs on Computers
- To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben on Computers
- To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
- Dan Rather on Computers
- To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
- Paul R. Ehrlich on Computers
- To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
- Adlai Stevenson on Computers
- Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
- James Dyson on Computers
- Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
- Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
- Clifford Stoll on Computers
- Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
- Taylor Kitsch on Computers
- We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
- Jack Wagner on Computers
- We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
- We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
- Mordechai Vanunu on Computers
- We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
- Tim Berners-Lee on Computers
- We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
- Bill McCollum on Computers
- We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.
- Jon Porter on Computers
- We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
- Tim O'Reilly on Computers
- We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
- Lenny Kravitz on Computers
- We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
- Steve Jobs on Computers
- We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
- Catherine Bell on Computers
- We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
- Nicholas Negroponte on Computers
- We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
- Emilio Estevez on Computers
- Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
- Mitch Kapor on Computers
- Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.
- Mark Rylance on Computers
- Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
- Jack Kilby on Computers
- Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
- What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
- Walter F. Mondale on Computers
- What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
- John Warnock on Computers
- What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
- Steve Wozniak on Computers
- What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
- Dale Dougherty on Computers
- What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
- Seth Lloyd on Computers
- When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.
- When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
- Richard Stallman on Computers
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