Computer Quotes · Page 151

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going.…

— Jonathan Dee

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Computers don't kill books; people do.

— Douglas Rushkoff

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate…

— John Zerzan

I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

— Larry Wall

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment…

— Arthur C. Clarke

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

— Don Tapscott

I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day,…

— Nolan Gould

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot…

— Carrie Vaughn

I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the…

— David Macklovitch

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

— Ernest Cline

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and…

— Ronald Graham

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks"…

— Kurt Ralske

OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?

— Eugene Wigner

I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

— Natalie Goldberg

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and…

— Bill Griffith

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

— Neal Stephenson

Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very…

— Kevin Williams

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I…

— Robert Webb

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to…

— David Mamet

There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the…

— Vinton Cerf

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin…

— Justin Bieber