Computers Quotes · Page 48

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

— Duke of Wellington

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

“TO RECIVE EDUCATION WITH A COMPUTER, YOU HAVE TO WOEK.”

— DAVE SANTI

The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.

— Nigel Hawthorne

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

— Jeff Henderson

I'm not a machine. I don't see why people demand more of me than of other players.

— Rivaldo

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

— Alan Kay

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings…

— Eddie Vedder

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

— Alan Turing

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not…

— Rob Brown

“Say, darling, I'm giving you this wonderful present, it's a machine that eats at one end and shits out the other, it's…

— Stephen King

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“Devices make us pliant. We want to please them. The machine was his only hope of deliverance after what he'd done, what…

— Don DeLillo

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices,…

— Bill Gates

Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to…

— Joseph Campbell

“People know how to deal with a desktop intuitively. If you walk into an office, there are papers on the desk. The…

— Walter Isaacson

“Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and…

— John Brunner

“might be just a set of equations and eye-blearing numbers disembodied from all physical significance. She might not hear another word about…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“less than two months in Australia Hubbard had racked up debts, lost a machine gun, upset the top brass and been sent…

— steve cannane

I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the…

— David Hanson

“Sociable robotics exploits the idea of a robotic body to move people to relate to machines as subjects, as creatures in pain…

— Sherry Turkle

Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to…

— Bob Frankston

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

— Justin Long

“Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean.”

— Stephen King

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Don't accept anything from the people, they are not the machine yo created:(

— Sandeep

“I basically have two states of being: on the road or on the computer.”

— judith fein

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

— Matt Tong

I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.

— Bianca Belair

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

— Anonymous

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

— Anonymous

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

— Kip Thorne

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

— Joshua Michael Stern

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

— Orson Welles

Computers in the future may¦perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.

— Anonymous

“My computer is a tool not a way of life. The real world is outside.”

— Kirk Ward Robinson

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

— David Guetta