Computers Quotes · Page 44

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

— William Moore Kelly

“The oldest computer hardware I worked on was in professional astronomy.”

— Steven Magee

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

— Joan Lunden

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

— Frank Herbert

Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.

— Lee Zeldin

“scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans,”

— Rick Riordan

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

— Jon Kyl

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

— Joseph Weizenbaum

“Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as…

— Walter Isaacson

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do…

— John von Neumann

“A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs . That's the truth. I don't…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I…

— Steven Wright

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my…

— Eric Avery

“The iPhone is not only the bestselling mobile phone but also the bestselling music player, the bestselling camera, the bestselling video screen…

— Brian Merchant

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that…

— Brendan Fraser

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

— Joaquin Phoenix

“I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a…

— Derrick Jensen

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very…

— Jeff Hawkins

“Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in…

— Awdhesh Singh

While Hollywood's computer graphics quality is world-class, their production pipelines are a mess of non-standard tools and labor-intensive processes driven by the…

— Tim Sweeney

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an…

— Walter Russell

“It's a piece of cake, being a lawyer or a doctor or a computer systems analyst or an accountant. Libraries are full…

— Val McDermid

To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age…

— Ronald Reagan

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

— Jaron Lanier

“Neither of us are very good at making friends unless we can hide behind computers.”

— Edmond Manning

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

— B. F. Skinner

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

— Che Guevara

In the end, it's just the nature of the hype machine. There is no in-between in modern football.

— Martin Odegaard

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

— Virginia Woolf

In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

— Judy Horacek

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

— Eric Schmidt

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

— Clare Boothe Luce

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

— Twyla Tharp

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

— Alex Kingston

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Everyone's computer, mobile phone or music-listening device should have a folder in my name with 100 songs.

— D. Imman

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

— Bertrand Russell