Computers Quotes
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
~Philip Emeagwali
~Philip Emeagwali
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
~E. W. Dijkstra
~E. W. Dijkstra
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
~Ted Nelson
~Ted Nelson
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
~James Magary
~James Magary
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
~Clifford Stoll
~Clifford Stoll
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
~Andy Rooney
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
~Greg Egan
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
~Nicholas Negroponte
~Nicholas Negroponte
Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
~Jonathan Shapiro
~Jonathan Shapiro
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
~Doug Larson
~Doug Larson
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
~Rick Boucher
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
~Eugene Jarvis
~Eugene Jarvis
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
~Stephen Hawking
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
~Robert X. Cringely
~Robert X. Cringely
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
~Pierre Gallois
~Pierre Gallois
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
~Jef Raskin
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
~Unknown
~Unknown
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
~John C. Dvorak
~John C. Dvorak
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
~Kevin Mitnick
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
~Edward Shepherd Mead
~Edward Shepherd Mead
One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
~John Allen
~John Allen
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~Isaac Asimov
~Isaac Asimov
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
~Bruce Scheneier
~Bruce Scheneier
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
~Rick Cook
~Rick Cook
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
~Jef Raskin
~Jef Raskin
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.
~Philip K. Dick
~Philip K. Dick
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
~Ted Nelson
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
~Bill Gates
~Bill Gates
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
~Nathaniel Borenstein
~Nathaniel Borenstein
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
~Joe Martin
~Joe Martin
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
~Colin Greenwood
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
~Sherman Austin
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
~Mark Rylance
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
~Clifford Stoll
~Clifford Stoll
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
~Gary Coleman
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