Computer Quotes · Page 56

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

— Ben Shneiderman

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

— Zeena Parkins

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills…

— James Gleick

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

— Scott McNealy

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

— Demetri Martin

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of…

— Owsley Stanley

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct…

— Chris Adami

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and…

— Nick Blaemire

The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't…

— Gordon Korman

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being…

— Richard Stallman

“Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down…

— Brian Bagnall

Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks…

— Pope Francis

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but…

— Gerald Weinberg

I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,…

— Walter Isaacson

Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate…

— Seth Klarman

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head.…

— George R. R. Martin

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

— Larry Wall

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

— Anonymous

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

— iJustine

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect…

— Santiago Calatrava

You don't meet computer game characters when you use a controller. You control computer game characters.

— Peter Molyneux

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a…

— Tina Fey

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

— Roy Romer

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

— Dave Barry

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

— Martin Rees

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

— Justin Kaplan

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

— Kevin Mitnick

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

— Charles Simonyi

I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends…

— Jon Heder

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

— Michael Nutter

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song…

— JC Chasez

It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up…

— Brian Regan

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

“Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting.”

— Nick Hornby

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

— David Tudor

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

— Toyo Ito

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to…

— John Gruber

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…

— Tom Shales

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I…

— Peyton Reed