Computer Quotes · Page 49

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're…

— Anonymous

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get…

— Keith Fullerton Whitman

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

— Simon Mainwaring

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear…

— Isaac Asimov

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

— Clive Thompson

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

— Larry Wall

Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on…

— Carrie Underwood

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so…

— Alison Gopnik

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just…

— Steve Jobs

The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and…

— Gerald Edelman

The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This…

— Peter Drucker

If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one…

— Esther Earl

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers…

— Clifford Stoll

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may…

— Rodney Brooks

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point…

— Richard Dawkins

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around…

— Stephen Stills

I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't…

— Sam Esmail

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

— John C. Dvorak

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that…

— Kevin Mitnick

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

— Robin Sloan

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

— Steve Kluger

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the…

— Anne Enright

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

— Dane Cook

It's about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for…

— Pranav Mistry

My dad has learned all of the songs that I've sent him. He put it on his computer, on his jukebox, on…

— Noah Cyrus

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

— Gregory Chaitin

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

— Bruce Sterling

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer…

— Maggie Shipstead

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to…

— Davy Rothbart

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

— Huey Lewis

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you…

— Ken Blanchard

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best…

— Terence McKenna

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

— Amit Singhal

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their…

— Scott McNealy

Having been trained as a computer scientist in the '90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it. They tried neural…

— Sergey Brin

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

— Nicholas Negroponte

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

— Emil Ruder

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

— Marissa Mayer

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got…

— Marc Andreessen