Computers Quotes · Page 26

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

— Erich Fromm

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

— Marcel Pagnol

“A journey inward may end in defeat For life as we know it was made by machines”

— Mechina - Impact Proxy

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

— Jacky Rosen

“the world’s greatest murdering machine ‘a job,’ is something that I cannot understand.”

— D. Lawrence-Young

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

— Taiichi Ohno

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

— Steven Wilson

“If you want your ideas to be stickier, you’ve got to break someone’s guessing machine and then fix it.”

— Chip Heath

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of…

— Margaret Atwood

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated…

— Charlie Brooker

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a…

— Richard A. Falk

“Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.' Nora: 'Yeah, and…

— Robin Wasserman

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient…

— Max Euwe

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's…

— Rob Pike

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want…

— Ralph Hasenhuttl

“PEOPLE USED to be connected to one another all the time. That’s what my parents told me. Everyone had phones and computers.…

— Lauren DeStefano

In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture.…

— Massimo Vignelli

Here's a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash,…

— David Autor

“Crafting fine tea requires a highly developed sense of perception for touch, sight, and sound that no machine can replicate. And every…

— Mary Lou Heiss

For me, growing up coding and computers and video games wasn't something that was cool, but it was something that I was…

— iJustine

“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive…

— Neil Gaiman

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from…

— Deryck Whibley

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

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

— Huey Lewis

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

— Frederick Lenz

“Some days I feel like a breast stuck in a mammography machine.”

— Holly Patrone

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

— Evgeny Morozov

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

— Matt Groening

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

— Robert Burns

It fell like a tear from my eye, flying machine so up high. Well... there goes the neighborhood.

— Brandon Boyd

“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.”

— Anonymous

The awkward moment when you're on the computer and your mom sits right next to you! ._.

— Naresha

“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.”

— David Mitchell

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

— James Gleick

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

— Frank Zappa

“Aren't you that hick girl who lives out in the swamp? Do you even know what a computer is? -Scott Waldron”

— Julie Kagawa

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

— Will Self

There is no way to read your password to someone else without feeling like a complete idiot.

— Anonymous

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

— Alan Dershowitz