Computers Quotes · Page 87

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

— Dallas Roberts

“The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not?”

— Cal Newport

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

— John Searle

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

“He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.”

— Jean Paul Sartre

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

— Nicholas Negroponte

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

— Anonymous

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

— John von Neumann

Artificial intelligence is a wonderful thing. I told my computer that today is my birthday, and it said that I needed an…

— Anonymous

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and…

— William S. Burroughs

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks…

— Billy Williams

“I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once,…

— Kim Harrison

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of…

— William Kamkwamba

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication,…

— Bill Gates

Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

I can't listen to my own voice. I change my voicemail on my machine literally every week because I'm so obsessed with…

— Michael Angarano

“New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the…

— Bill Maher

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists…

— Martin Rees

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care.…

— Dave Barry

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…

— Danny Hillis

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“How did the System Holmes machine become . . . a System Watson? Simple. Holmes says it himself: he had lost interest…

— Maria Konnikova

“I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and…

— Stephan Pastis

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

— Howard Rheingold

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

— Denis Leary

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Life is a computer with the default set to Just Deal With It.

— Anonymous

“A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?”

— Janet Evanovich

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

— Sebastian Seung

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

— Shepherd Mead

Dear computer, If I knit you a sweater, will you stop freezing?

— Itsme867

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

— Tom DeMarco

Bayern is a dream destination for every player, one of the best clubs in the world, a real machine.

— Miralem Pjanic

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

— Elvis Presley

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

— Ben Gibbard

Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.

— Luke Evans