Computer Quotes · Page 57

Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

— Bill Gates

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

— Miguel de Icaza

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art…

— Pharrell Williams

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

— Marvin Minsky

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer…

— Agatha Christie

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

— Dave Barry

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer…

— Jacob Hashimoto

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

— Steve McConnell

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning…

— J.R. Ward

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer…

— Raymond E. Feist

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're…

— Ellen Ullman

If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on…

— Boris Gelfand

I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us…

— Michio Kaku

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the…

— Daniel Simon

Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that,…

— Maurice Ashley

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the…

— Peter Drucker

Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.

— Jennifer Aniston

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power…

— Seymour Papert

When I write, I try to turn my Internet off so I can't procrastinate through the Internet, but then I just get…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry…

— Anthony Hopkins

My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.

— James Murphy

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.…

— Jim McKelvey

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

— Jef Raskin

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to…

— Bernard Avishai

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

— Buzz Aldrin

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand…

— Donald Knuth

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

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

— Toyo Ito

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

— David Tudor

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to…

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Tom Shales

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to…

— Robert Breault

Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its…

— Noga Alon

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

— Peyton Reed

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

— Justin Kaplan

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

— Martin Rees

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

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

— Roy Romer