Computer Quotes · Page 53

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

— Vivek Wadhwa

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be…

— Levon Aronian

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

— Bram Cohen

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Walter Isaacson

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

— William Gibson

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to…

— Thomas Friedman

Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless…

— Bryan Burrough

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the…

— Jimmy Wales

I do know how to operate a computer. (Joe) Yeah, right. What was it you said just ten minutes ago? Get this…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I suppose I sort of like effects that have some organic elements rather than ones that are entirely generated by a computer.…

— Richard Ayoade

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect.…

— Dave Barry

More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea…

— David Berlinski

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as…

— Harry Bridges

Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the…

— Rob Minkoff

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone,

— Steve Ballmer

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

— Seth Godin

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States,

— Howard Aiken

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

— Deepak Chopra

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

— Hal Abelson

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

— Lily Cole

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

— Hal Finney

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

— Steven Levy

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

— Brian Eno

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more…

— John Lasseter

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

— Busy Philipps

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

— John Cale

“Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.”

— Quentin Crisp

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet…

— Katie Holmes

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and…

— Tre Cool

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features…

— Jakob Nielsen

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display…

— Charles Petzold

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

— Martin Freeman

I use my computer to take notes more and more because my handwriting is so bad. I'm a lefty and it's getting…

— Maggie Haberman

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds…

— Rudy Rucker