Computer Quotes · Page 36

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

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

— Leonard Nimoy

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

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— Mitt Romney

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

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

— Sally Phillips

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of…

— Jaron Lanier

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

— Stephen Hawking

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off…

— Steve Wozniak

I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of…

— Ahmet Ertegun

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public…

— Jon Porter

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should…

— John von Neumann

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The…

— Garry Kasparov

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere,…

— Dave Barry

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world…

— Tod Machover

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Ken Thompson

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is…

— Annie Baker

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

— Tanya Bianco

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

— Hallie Ephron

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

— Terry Mosher

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

— Paul Dourish

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

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

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going…

— Leroy Hood

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and…

— Roy Romer

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

— Justin Long

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined…

— Gene Spafford

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a…

— John Travolta

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself…

— Eleanor Catton

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

— Joshua Michael Stern

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on…

— Gabriel Campisi

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,…

— Carol Burnett

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

— Brian Eno