Computers Quotes · Page 78

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

Tip the valet 100 dollars to stunt. Pulled up in that mean machine, leave it up front.

— Young Jeezy

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

— Andreja Pejic

That fail moment when you press the wrong numbers on the vending machine...

— Anonymous

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

— Dick Clark

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

— Jean Baudrillard

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design…

— K. Eric Drexler

Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as…

— Satoru Iwata

“If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with…

— Charles Yu

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

— Matthew Kane

I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they…

— Todd Howard

Being signed to a major label, it's a big machine behind you. There are so many people that are working to push…

— Trina

The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be…

— Octave Chanute

“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

— Lionel Shriver

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,…

— Gilbert Ryle

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product…

— John Shadegg

“He pushed away from the computer and pressed his chest against my back, wrapping me in his arms. “I love that you…

— Devney Perry

“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating,…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he…

— Marvin Minsky

“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You…

— Kieran Hebden

In the fields the bodies burning, as the war machine keeps turning.

— Black Sabbath

“Internet is, “a giant machine designed to give people what they want.”

— Nir Eyal

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

— Tony Kanal

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

— Frank Peretti

The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.

— Nigel Hawthorne

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

— Jeff Henderson

“TO RECIVE EDUCATION WITH A COMPUTER, YOU HAVE TO WOEK.”

— DAVE SANTI

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

“Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean.”

— Stephen King

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

— Alan Kay

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

— Justin Long

I'm not a machine. I don't see why people demand more of me than of other players.

— Rivaldo

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

— Anonymous

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

— Kip Thorne