Computer Quotes · Page 53

There are too many distractions on a computer.

— Charles Forsman

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

— Clifford Stoll

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I…

— George R. R. Martin

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political…

— Eduardo Paes

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s,…

— Judy Woodruff

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design…

— Steve Wozniak

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

— Bill James

We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we…

— Douglas Adams

I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of…

— Alex Gibney

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's…

— Tom Chatfield

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some…

— Jon Postel

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still…

— Harper Lee

The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

— Hal Abelson

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

— Wally Lamb

All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or…

— Garry Kasparov

All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds…

— Fred Brooks

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was…

— Jamie Woon

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

— Louise Bourgeois

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

— Adam Rifkin

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to…

— Paul Lutus

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,…

— Wendell Berry

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

— Zooey Deschanel

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

— William Shatner

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

— Larry Davis

Never tell a computer to forget it.

— Larry Niven

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

— Tommy Lee

The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music…

— Zeena Parkins

I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.…

— Melina Marchetta

Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to…

— Russ Feingold

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond…

— Dennis Miller

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the…

— Garrett Hedlund

Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to…

— Garry Kasparov

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

— Steve Wozniak

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who…

— Bill Bryson

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

— Herbert Jay Stern

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

Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

— Edward Yourdon