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computers quotes (95) I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov Category: Computers ![]() Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov Category: Computers ![]() One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' Norman Ralph Augustine Category: Computers ![]() Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Erykah Badu Category: Computers ![]() I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. Dave Barry Category: Computers ![]() The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry Category: Computers ![]() No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. Danielle Berry Category: Computers ![]() A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. Daniel J. Boorstin Category: Computers ![]() I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. Dee Brown Category: Computers ![]() It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. Craig Bruce Category: Computers ![]() I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer. Bill Budge Category: Computers ![]() The power of the computer is starting to spread. Bill Budge Category: Computers ![]() Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell Category: 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. Jim Clark Category: Computers ![]() Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke Category: Computers ![]() Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Kent Conrad Category: Computers ![]() Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. Richard Dawkins Category: Computers ![]() Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra Category: Computers ![]() The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger Dijkstra Category: Computers ![]() What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. Dale Dougherty Category: Computers ![]() The computer is a moron. Peter Drucker Category: Computers ![]() The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker Category: Computers ![]() To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Paul R. Ehrlich Category: Computers ![]() Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. Larry Ellison Category: Computers ![]() Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. Philip Emeagwali Category: Computers ![]() The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Douglas Engelbart Category: 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. Brian Eno Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: 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 Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: Computers ![]() I just became one with my browser software. Bill Griffith Category: 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 Category: Computers ![]() I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking Category: Computers ![]() I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains. Jeff Hawkins Category: Computers ![]() I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. Florence Henderson Category: Computers ![]() If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. James Hilton Category: Computers ![]() Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. Miguel de Icaza Category: Computers ![]() I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it. Marc Jacobs Category: Computers ![]() I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. Eugene Jarvis Category: Computers ![]() The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. Eugene Jarvis Category: Computers ![]() You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. Paul Kantner Category: Computers ![]() Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. Ray Kurzweil Category: Computers ![]() Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson Category: Computers ![]() Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Seth Lloyd Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: Computers ![]() We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. Bill McCollum Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: Computers ![]() Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. Kevin Mitnick Category: Computers ![]() Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. Issey Miyake Category: Computers ![]() What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? Walter F. Mondale Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: Computers ![]() Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte Category: Computers ![]() Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. Nicholas Negroponte Category: 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 Category: Computers ![]() We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. Tim O'Reilly Category: Computers ![]() Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. Ken Olsen Category: Computers ![]() There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. Ken Olsen Category: Computers ![]() To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Robert Orben Category: Computers ![]() People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. Adam Osborne Category: Computers ![]() The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all. Adam Osborne Category: 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. Nick Park Category: Computers ![]() As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. Dave Parnas Category: Computers ![]() If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. Alan Perlis Category: Computers ![]() In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". Alan Perlis Category: Computers ![]() A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips Category: Computers ![]() Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso Category: Computers ![]() I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. Christopher Plummer Category: Computers ![]() 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 Category: Computers ![]() Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. Jef Raskin Category: Computers ![]() To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer. Dan Rather Category: Computers ![]() |