Computer Quotes · Page 39

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— Walter O'Brien

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

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

— Steve Jobs

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

— Masi Oka

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“nIn all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks…

— John C. Dvorak

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

— Enrico Bombieri

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.'…

— Steve Perry

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as…

— Hal Abelson

I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to…

— Kevin Systrom

The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,…

— Mary Schmich

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their…

— Hillary Clinton

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…

— Richard Dawkins

It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual…

— Stewart Baker

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is…

— Randy Pausch

Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have…

— Walter Isaacson

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and…

— Melissa Etheridge

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

— Julianne Moore

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

— Jon Stewart

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books…

— Jack Prelutsky

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net…

— Scott McNealy

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm really good at World of Warcraft. Like, crazy good. Put me in front of a computer and it's like I enter…

— Frida Gustavsson

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called…

— William J. Clinton

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

— Robert Sewell

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

— Tony Hoare

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

— Grimes

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

— Ray Bradbury

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated,…

— Jennifer Granholm

These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than…

— Craig Ferguson

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere,…

— Dave Eggers

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

— Ray Kurzweil

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on…

— Linda Sue Park

I never thought I would get into acting. I was studying computer applications in Delhi and that was when I got selected…

— Sourabh Raj Jain

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

— Colin Greenwood

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

— Guy Steele

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

— Alan Perlis

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