Computer Quotes · Page 49

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express…

— Krist Novoselic

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

— Anonymous

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

— Tom Clancy

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

— Kenneth Rogoff

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

— Bertrand Meyer

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have…

— Boris Becker

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

— Peter Drucker

Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a…

— Dave Barry

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every…

— Paulo Coelho

I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto…

— Fran Lebowitz

In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face…

— Jimmy Wales

Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep…

— Kiersten White

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing…

— Sherry Turkle

If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by…

— Tony Robbins

U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.

— John O. Brennan

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

— Matthew Kane

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've…

— Jane Green

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

— Roger Penrose

Don't you hate when you're working on the computer and someone is looking over your shoulder...

— Anonymous

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer…

— Marshall McLuhan

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

— Deepak Chopra

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States,

— Howard Aiken

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

— Seth Godin

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

— Lily Cole

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

— Hal Finney

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

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

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

— Brian Eno

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

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

— Steven Levy

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

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet…

— Katie Holmes

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and…

— Tre Cool

“Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.”

— Quentin Crisp

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

— John Cale