Computers Quotes · Page 91

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

— William Shatner

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

— Neil Gaiman

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!

— Stephen Colbert

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

— Luis von Ahn

A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy

— Joseph Campbell

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

— Alan Perlis

“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.”

— John Pfeiffer

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies…

— Roger Ebert

When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

— Sam Ewing

“As for the rest of him, his function is rather like that of an anti-computer: you feed him all kinds of carefully…

— Roger Zelazny

Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a…

— Walt Mossberg

When computers came online and people found out people weren't mixing there was uproar, and outed. But now that hasn't happened. People…

— Erick Morillo

I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about…

— Ray Kurzweil

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a…

— Neil Strauss

As I found myself in the thick of the biggest investigative story of my career, I suffered state-backed computer hacking of my…

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music.…

— Jillian Hervey

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem…

— Clive Thompson

“Intelligence from another Scout unit indicated that several members of ZANLA’s Central Committee were currently staying there. The plan was simple: drive…

— Jeremy Duns

There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they…

— Bertrand Russell

“The requisite deployment technology does not exist as ready-to-go hardware today, but it could be supplied by any number of vendors using…

— David Keith

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk.…

— Richard Dooling

While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral…

— Joe Budden

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient,

— Hugh Herr

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

— Pat Metheny

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

— Nonito Donaire

“As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers.”

— Michio Kaku

People like to get bold behind a computer or an iPhone, and say whatever they want. I don't stand for that.

— Skai Jackson

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

— Monica Murphy

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

— Saul Dushman

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy

As machines take over the decision-making that saves lives, we are left with fewer chances to save lives later.

— Greg Gutfeld

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

— Anonymous

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

— Robert Benchley

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

— Washed Out

“..the heart is a hell of a machine. Even when it's broken, it still finds a way to carry on.”

— Crystal Cestari

“Of all machines, the human heart is the most complicated and inexplicable.”

— Thomas Jefferson

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

— Eric Schmidt