Computer Quotes · Page 43

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Hal Abelson

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does…

— Brian Eno

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

— Steven Levy

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

— Busy Philipps

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more…

— John Lasseter

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

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

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

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

— Kevin Systrom

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information…

— Saul Gorn

These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks.…

— Scott Adams

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically…

— Russell Hoban

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer.

— Milton Berle

Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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

— Wally Lamb

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

— J. Lynn

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

— Russ Feingold

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll…

— Robert G. Allen

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day…

— Jamais Cascio

As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to…

— Noma Bar

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state…

— Douglas Coupland

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

— Thom Yorke

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

— Seth Lloyd

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got…

— Marc Andreessen

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

— Richard A. Clarke

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.

— Ian Plimer

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of…

— Walter Isaacson

That's what I did growing up. Other than being on the computer, I was watching TV and movies. I make no apologies.

— Sam Esmail

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring…

— Nancy Kassebaum

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

— Amit Singhal

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best…

— Terence McKenna

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their…

— Scott McNealy

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Having been trained as a computer scientist in the '90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it. They tried neural…

— Sergey Brin