Computer Quotes · Page 47

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its…

— Noga Alon

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to…

— Robert Breault

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…

— Tom Shales

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills…

— James Gleick

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

— Zeena Parkins

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

— Ben Shneiderman

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of…

— Owsley Stanley

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening…

— Ron Livingston

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day.…

— Jeremy Clarkson

Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way…

— Frank Pearce

One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such…

— Marc Newson

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be…

— Richard P. Feynman

I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the…

— David Macklovitch

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral…

— Anonymous

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct…

— Chris Adami

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

— Demetri Martin

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

— Scott McNealy

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head.…

— George R. R. Martin

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

— Larry Wall

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

— Anonymous

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and…

— Nick Blaemire

You don't meet computer game characters when you use a controller. You control computer game characters.

— Peter Molyneux

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect…

— Santiago Calatrava

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

— iJustine

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

— Kwabena Boahen

I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this…

— Steve Wynn

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

— Jim Horning

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

— Edsger Dijkstra

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even…

— Nick Park

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

— Friedrich L. Bauer

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

— Gene Spafford

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your…

— Dave Barry

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many,…

— Douglas Adams

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a…

— Barton Gellman

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might…

— Marvin Minsky

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

— Sugata Mitra

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and…

— Iris Apfel

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

— Amy Poehler