Quotes and Sayings about Computers
"There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book."
- Howard Aiken
(Related: Education, Computers, Right)
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
- Isaac Asimov
(Related: Computers, Fear)
"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
(Related: Computers, Network, Running)
"When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: Computers, Information, Literature)
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Business, Government, Computers, Man, Nothing, Want)
"Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Time, Computers, Help, Reality, Will)
"China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Computers, Performance, American, Machine, Tools)
"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
(Related: Love, Computers, Race, Right, World)
"I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on."
- Clint Black
(Related: Computers, Music, Information)
"If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!"
- Don Bluth
(Related: Joy, Machines)
"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
- Rick Boucher
(Related: Computers, Home, Office, Washington)
"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Computers, Internet, Thinking)
"Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Business, Computers, Programming)
"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."
- Bill Budge
(Related: Computers, People, Want)
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
- Joseph Campbell
(Related: Computers, Gods, Mercy, Old, Rules)
"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think."
- Dixie Carter
(Related: Computers, Being, Children, First, Learning, Parents)
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Computers, People, Globalization, Internet, Talking, World)
"One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them."
- Steve Case
(Related: Computers, People, First)
"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
(Related: Computers, People, Problems, Software)
"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Computers, Time, December, End)
"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Computers, Study)
"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
- Gary Coleman
(Related: Computers, People, Creativity)
"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Computers, Education, Society, Internet)
"I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump."
- Tre Cool
(Related: Computers, People, Company, Talk)
"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Computers, Infatuation)
"You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now."
- Chuck D.
(Related: Computers, People, Being, Difference, Now, Right, Years)
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Computers, Technology, Children, Hardware, School, Schools)
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Computers, Science, Astronomy)
"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
(Related: Computers, Music, Technology)
"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
(Related: Computers, Financial, Credit, Experts, Folk, Talking)
"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Computers, Mountains, Oceans, Rivers, Television)
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Computers, Expectations, Now)
"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software."
- Greg Egan
(Related: Computers, Now, Software, Years)
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Computers)
"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
- Philip Emeagwali
(Related: Computers, People, Right)
"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
(Related: Computers, Work, Disease, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Computers, People, Being, Problems, Security, Will)
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Computers, Creativity, Communication, Tools)
"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
- Louis Gerstner
(Related: Computers, Dreams, Love, Compassion, Machine, Spirit, Tools, Understanding)
"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
- Milton Glaser
(Related: Computers, Design, Cooking)
"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Computers, Home, Discovery, Friends, Kids, Potential)
"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
(Related: Computers, Innovation, Old)
"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
(Related: Computers, Men, Danger, Will)
"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."
- Debbie Harry
(Related: Computers, Will, World)
"I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains."
- Jeff Hawkins
(Related: Computers, Design, Study)
"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."
- Josh Holloway
(Related: Computers, Mother, Brothers)
"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."
- James Iha
(Related: Computers, World)
"Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information."
- Darrell Issa
(Related: Computers, People, Control, Being, Information, Privacy, states, United, Want)
"I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager."
- Eugene Jarvis
(Related: Computers, Impulses)
"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
(Related: Computers, Father, Help, School)
"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
- Charles Keating
(Related: 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
(Related: Computers, Power, Control, Fact, Right)
"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
(Related: Computers, Work, Beginning, First, Television)
"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: Business, Computers, Thought, First, Television)
"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
(Related: Computers, Technology, Being, Day, Kids)
"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
- Ray Kurzweil
(Related: Computers, Will)
"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Computers, Life, People, Internet, Now, Right, Want)
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
- Doug Larson
(Related: Computers, Home, Being)
"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same."
- Bill Laswell
(Related: Computers, Music)
"It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister."
- Robert B. Laughlin
(Related: Computers, Curiosity, Fact)
"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
(Related: Computers, Work, People, Cooperation, Information, Meaning)
"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
(Related: Computers, Vision, Talk, Want, World)
"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
- Steven Levy
(Related: Computers, History)
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Computers, Being, Famous)
"Something else has happened with computers."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: 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
(Related: Society, Computers, Information)
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."
- Thabo Mbeki
(Related: Computers, People, Country, Road, Television, Will)
"We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers."
- Bill McCollum
(Related: Computers, Privacy)
"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Computers, Power, Today, Will, World)
"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Computers, Space, Weight)
"It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Computers, People, Problems, Skill)
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: Work, Computers, Technology)
"What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?"
- Walter F. Mondale
(Related: Computers, Kids, Want)
"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."
- Robert Moog
(Related: Computers, Time, Invention, Musicians)
"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Computers, Work, Support)
"Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time."
- Thomas Nagel
(Related: Computers, Time, Man, Mind, Waste, Will)
"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
- Nicholas Negroponte
(Related: Computers, Living)
"Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water."
- Nicholas Negroponte
(Related: Computers, Fish, Kids, Water, World)
"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
(Related: Computers, News)
"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
- Ted Nelson
(Related: Computers)
"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
- Ted Nelson
(Related: Computers, Information, Nonsense, Numbers, Saying)
"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
(Related: Computers, Information, Resolution, Today, Years)
"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."
- Lennart Nilsson
(Related: Computers, Work, Enemy, Light, Poor)
"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all."
- Adam Osborne
(Related: Computers, People, Selling, Future, Lies)
"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
- Adam Osborne
(Related: Computers, People, Mistakes, Will, Wrong)
"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
(Related: Computers, People, Want)
"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
(Related: Computers, Home, Money, Time, End, Ownership, Statistics)
"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."
- Nick Park
(Related: Computers, World)
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso
(Related: Computers, Answers)
"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
(Related: Computers, Children, Public, Schools)
"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
(Related: Computers, Time, Decision)
"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
- Frank Press
(Related: Computers, First)
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Time, Computers, Complaining)
"Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Computers, Now, Right)
"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Home, Power, Time, Development, Environment, First, Internet, Machines, Talking, Unix, Years)
"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
- Alain Robert
(Related: Computers, People)
"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Computers, Knowledge, Software, Will)
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Computers)
"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Computers, Time, May, Waste)
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: 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
(Related: Computers, Wife, Perception, Enjoyment, Moon, Understanding)
"People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them."
- Bruce Scheneier
(Related: Computers, People)
"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
(Related: Computers, People, Communication)
"From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Computers, Health, Quality, Fight, Philosophy, Public)
"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
- Jonathan Shapiro
(Related: 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
(Related: Computers, Day)
"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
- Herbert Simon
(Related: Computers, Care, World)
"The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans."
- David Smith
(Related: Computers, Society, Question, Thinking, Will)
"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Computers, Family, People, Children)
"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
(Related: Computers, Fact, Man)
"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: 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
(Related: Computers, Genetics, Talking)
"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"
- Tracey Ullman
(Related: Computers, Future, Space, Talking)
"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it."
- Jack Vance
(Related: Computers, Blind, Writing)
"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
(Related: Computers, Technology, Help, Weapons)
"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Computers)
"Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison."
- Claude Vorilhon
(Related: Age, Computers, Children)
"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"
- Lech Walesa
(Related: Faith, Love, Computers, Direction, Freedom, Sense)
"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
(Related: Computers, People, Act, Information, Problems)
"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."
- Roberta Williams
(Related: Computers, Thought, People, Software, Want, Years)
"It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them."
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Society, Media, Order)
"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
(Related: Computers, Nature, Possibility, Now, Rules, Years)
"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Computers, Power, People, Being, Revolution)
"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Computers, Life)
"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
- Steve Wozniak
(Related: Computers, Money, Goal)
"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Computers, End)
"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Computers, Work, Sense)