Computer Quotes · Page 37

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

— Charles Petzold

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do…

— Richard Dawkins

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never…

— Aziz Ansari

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

— Chuck Klosterman

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

— Alan Kay

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

— Marc Andreessen

[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on…

— Dennis Miller

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like…

— William Gibson

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed…

— Shelley Hennig

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers…

— Howard Rheingold

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it…

— Terry Mosher

The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child…

— Seymour Papert

I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the…

— Glenn Branca

With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm…

— Larry Wall

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

— James Howell

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

— Frederick Lenz

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

— Paul Dourish

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

— Terry Mosher

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of…

— Hallie Ephron

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

— Ted Nelson

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

— Beck

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

— Ernest Cline

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations…

— Dave Thomas

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but…

— Massimo Vignelli

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

— Leonard Nimoy

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

— Gary William Flake

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

— Sally Phillips

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is…

— Mitch Albom

China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.

— Mitt Romney

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart…

— Carine Roitfeld

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of…

— Bill Gates

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

— Alan Perlis

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

— Charles Bass

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more…

— Ken Thompson

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I…

— Barton Gellman

I hate when my parents never let me go anywhere and then ask me why I'm always on the computer.

— Tanya Bianco