Computers Quotes · Page 70

“Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting.”

— Nick Hornby

I love my computer because all my friends live inside it!

— Daisy

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

— Michael Nutter

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

— Daryl Hall

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

— Ted Nelson

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Bragging that you had sex with a prostitute is like bragging that you got Doritos out of a vending machine.

— Natasha Leggero

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly…

— Sebastian Thrun

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm…

— Rose Byrne

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I…

— James Lipton

“You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite…

— Elizabeth Newton

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

— Vint Cerf

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that…

— Amelia Gray

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing…

— Wietse Venema

“I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and the metal will melt…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on…

— Golan Levin

Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and…

— Amby Burfoot

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I stopped thinking and watched in horror as Tex banged the portafilter on top of the espresso machine. Monty hit a button…

— Kristen Ashely

My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with…

— Bill Gates

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in…

— Rob Pilatus

“Have you ever seen an anthill?" he said at last. "A machine of tiny marchers. Too much motion, you cannot make out…

— Frances Hardinge

A relationship without trust is like a computer without a monitor. It's WORTHLESS.

— Anonymous

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

— Toyo Ito

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine,

— Sigfried Giedion

Though the computer can correct anything, a bad image is a bad image.

— Charles Traub

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

— Chad Hurley

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

— Timothy Leary

Am I the only one who spends their weekends on the computer,eating, and watching movies all by themselves?

— Anonymous

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

— Joe Arpaio

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

— Tupac Shakur

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

“Like the invention of the telescope, the introduction of MRI machines and a variety of advanced brain scans”

— Michio Kaku

I didn't even have a computer until I was twenty years old.

— Perez Hilton

When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.

— iJustine

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Zeena Parkins

“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.”

— Pedro Domingos