Computer Quotes

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

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.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.