Computers Quotes · Page 25

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

— Joe Cocker

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

— Herbert Hoover

I find myself a much happier person when I turn off my computer and live my life.

— Mike Portnoy

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

— Hal Sparks

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

— Winston Churchill

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

— Shawn Fanning

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

— Jacques Ellul

The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer,…

— Robert Stone

When someone decides to be in the room while you're on the computer so you just switch to Google and stare at…

— Anonymous

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their…

— Richard Wagner

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a…

— Aphex Twin

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree…

— K. Eric Drexler

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we…

— Luis von Ahn

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

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant…

— Michio Kaku

Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the…

— Chris Howard

“would escape to his own private planet, Ro, where an imaginary astronomer friend, Zi, had finally succeeded in building a machine to…

— Diane Ackerman

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon…

— Michael G. Kramer

Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for…

— Darynda Jones

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one…

— Marc Andreessen

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the…

— Todd Park

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the…

— Lauryn Hill

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

— Mike O'Malley

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

— David Duchovny

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

— Eric Schmidt

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

— Alvin Toffler

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Understand man is not a machine, he need a surface and a purpose and a reason for being.

— Jedi Mind Tricks

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

— Eckhard Pfeiffer

“A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.”

— Thomas Jefferson

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

— will.i.am

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

— Andy Warhol

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

— Elaine Equi

“During World War II, the SS San Pasqual was outfitted with machine guns and light cannons.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

— Mickey Hart

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

— Douglas Wilson

“Then I am a cancer-fighting machine,” I told him. “That you are, Hazel.”

— John Green

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

— Margaret J. Wheatley