Computers Quotes · Page 76

I shouldn't tell jokes about my wife. she's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

— Stewart Brand

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.

— Drew Scott

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

— John Maeda

“Do you have a sewing machine?" "Maybe an antique. My Mom's not the knitty type." From Jenny Pox”

— JL Bryan

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Two days from now I invented a time travel machine out of my neighbor’s washing machine. I can’t go back yet, as…

— Jarod Kintz

“Why do Japanese commandos fire Czech machine guns at Puerto Rican passengers departing an Air France flight in an Israeli airport? To…

— Stathis N. Kalyvas

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that…

— Steve Case

I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm…

— Matana Roberts

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to…

— Steve Wozniak

“He went from a fun-loving loose cannon to a monkey with a machine gun. Sure, it’s cute, but eventually someone’s going to…

— Johnny Shaw

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work,…

— Bill Gates

A lot of senior artists say that they support women, but they have a machine of people behind them telling them to…

— Bibi Bourelly

Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then…

— Augusten Burroughs

“In our day, friends, there weren’t fancy computers or the internet telling us how to be a man. We just…were men. We…

— Rajesh Goyal, राजेश गोयल

The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds…

— John Searle

“He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his…

— Flannery O'Connor

Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At…

— Dan Rather

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the…

— Joshua Foer

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if…

— Greg Graffin

[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings…

— Rudolph Schoenheimer

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

— Gore Vidal

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

— Poul Anderson

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

— Anna D. Shapiro

“Our problem-scanning machine (amygdala) and our serenity-now mood tape (prefrontal cortex) are at war.”

— Neil Pasricha

Life is like a computer. Once in a while you get viruses but your anti-virus gives them back double.

— Anonymous

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

— Roger Penrose

Women are like computers -- even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval

— Green Monk

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

— Aaron Swartz

I promise I'll turn you into something useful like a washing machine or a toaster.

— Vegeta

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

— Charles Stross

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

— Reggie Watts

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

— Adam Rifkin

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

— Rosamund Pike

With WWE, it's a massive machine, and you will air in 120 countries and have action figures and towels.

— Edge

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

— Bill Joy