Computer Quotes · Page 53

I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer.…

— Nola Ochs

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping…

— Theophilus London

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound…

— Zooey Deschanel

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

— Owsley Stanley

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and…

— James Altucher

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

— Hal Abelson

I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

— Walter O'Brien

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.

— Adrian Younge

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will…

— Steve Jobs

If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning…

— Paul Saffo

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one…

— Maurice Wilkes

I was always interested in technology. When personal computers came out, I was one of the first to pick one up and…

— Mamoru Oshii

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the…

— Tom Wujec

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes…

— Ted Nelson

In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice,…

— Tyler Cowen

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

— Aimee Mann

When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.

— Marillyn Hewson

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

— Edward Abbey

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but…

— Shiloh Fernandez

I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion.com. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and…

— Reid Scott

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

— Milton Berle

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called…

— David Pogue

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is…

— David Sedaris

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

— Richard Stallman

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other…

— Douglas Rushkoff

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a…

— Alan Turing

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone…

— Mark Zuckerberg

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

— Anders Hejlsberg

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

— Howard Rheingold

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

— David F. Emery

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

— Janet Fitch

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

— Jef Raskin

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a…

— Diane Paulus

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

— Chris Prentiss

I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

— Alex Trebek

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff…

— Jeremy Enigk

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

— John Lasseter