--- title: "24 Computers Quotes By Richard Dawkins" description: "24 Computers quotes by Richard Dawkins. Plus more from Richard Dawkins and more Computers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/richard-dawkins-115_computers_human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-1158_1158362.jpg" --- > [Human beings are just gene machines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/human-beings-are-just-gene-machines/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/richard-dawkins-115_computers_human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-1158_1158362.jpg) > [“The computers in which memes live are human brains.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-human-brains/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e2/richard-dawkins-115_computers_the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-hu_513586.jpg) > [Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/writing-a-computer-virus-program-is-child-s-play-any-fool-can-do-it/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b6/richard-dawkins-115_be-proud_writing-a-computer-virus-program-is-chil_822325.jpg) > [“They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/they-have-come-a-long-way-those-replicators-now-they-go-by-the-name/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2d/richard-dawkins-115_computers_they-have-come-a-long-way-those-replicat_1781362.jpg) > [The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-body-is-a-survival-machine-programmed-to-propagate-the-genes-that/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ad/richard-dawkins-115_body_the-body-is-a-survival-machine-programme_1203553.jpg) > [Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/personally-i-rather-look-forward-to-a-computer-program-winning-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/richard-dawkins-115_championship_personally-i-rather-look-forward-to-a-co_1080585.jpg) > [My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/my-computer-is-a-very-complex-gadget-and-it-was-designed-by-many/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/richard-dawkins-115_complexes_my-computer-is-a-very-complex-gadget-and_482085.jpg) > [We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-are-built-as-gene-machines-and-cultured-as-meme-machines-but-we/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db6/richard-dawkins-115_built_we-are-built-as-gene-machines-and-cultur_69329.jpg) > [We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-are-machines-built-by-dna-whose-purpose-is-to-make-more-copies-of/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ad/richard-dawkins-115_built_we-are-machines-built-by-dna-whose-purpo_2002745.jpg) > [To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/to-invoke-the-origin-of-the-dna-protein-machine-by-invoking-a/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e4/richard-dawkins-115_computers_to-invoke-the-origin-of-the-dna-protein_3215173.jpg) > [They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/they-are-in-you-and-me-they-created-us-body-and-mind-and-their/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53a/richard-dawkins-115_body_they-are-in-you-and-me-they-created-us-b_463538.jpg) > [When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/when-i-say-that-human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-one-shouldn-t-put/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b5/richard-dawkins-115_beauty_when-i-say-that-human-beings-are-just-ge_1881988.jpg) > [The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-reason-we-personify-things-like-cars-and-computers-is-that-just/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a26/richard-dawkins-115_cars_the-reason-we-personify-things-like-cars_2566838.jpg) > [I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-m-fascinated-by-the-idea-that-genetics-is-digital-a-gene-is-a-long/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf4/richard-dawkins-115_becoming_i-m-fascinated-by-the-idea-that-genetics_541527.jpg) > [There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in...,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/there-is-a-popular-clich-which-says-that-you-cannot-get-out-of/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/richard-dawkins-115_computer_there-is-a-popular-clich-which-says-that_357310.jpg) > [“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/different-sorts-of-survival-machine-appear-very-varied-on-the-outside/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/richard-dawkins-115_computers_different-sorts-of-survival-machine-appe_1178800.jpg) > [When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/when-you-make-machines-that-are-capable-of-obeying-instructions/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/939/richard-dawkins-115_among_when-you-make-machines-that-are-capable_309811.jpg) > [If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-you-don-t-know-anything-about-computers-just-remember-that-they/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d5/richard-dawkins-115_computer_if-you-don-t-know-anything-about-compute_2904243.jpg) > [We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-are-survival-machines-robot-vehicles-blindly-programmed-to/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/richard-dawkins-115_astonishment_we-are-survival-machines-robot-vehicles_440484.jpg) > [ “\[Science\] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/science-works-planes-fly-cars-drive-computers-compute-if-you-base/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/885/richard-dawkins-115_computers_science-works-planes-fly-cars-drive-comp_561441.jpg) > [Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/like-computer-viruses-successful-mind-viruses-will-tend-to-be-hard/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/richard-dawkins-115_atheism_like-computer-viruses-successful-mind-vi_2014497.jpg) > [The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-machine-code-of-the-genes-is-uncannily-computer-like-apart-from/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cd/richard-dawkins-115_biology_the-machine-code-of-the-genes-is-uncanni_2572263.jpg) > [The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-genetic-code-is-not-a-binary-code-as-in-computers-nor-an-eight/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d8/richard-dawkins-115_binary_the-genetic-code-is-not-a-binary-code-as_2936691.jpg) > [Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/such-a-bandwidth-god-who-may-not-have-a-brain-made-of-neurons-or-a/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/richard-dawkins-115_bandwidth_such-a-bandwidth-god-who-may-not-have-a_1678778.jpg) ## Other authors on Computers - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 73 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/bill-gates/) - [Jarod Kintz 37 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/jarod-kintz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-jobs-87290.jpg) Steve Jobs 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/steve-jobs/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-douglas-adams-30413.jpg) Douglas Adams 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/douglas-adams/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dave-barry-27009.jpg) Dave Barry 31 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/dave-barry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-wozniak-87432.jpg) Steve Wozniak 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/steve-wozniak/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-hawking-87021.jpg) Stephen Hawking 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/stephen-hawking/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ellen-ullman-32754.jpg) Ellen Ullman 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/ellen-ullman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-yuval-noah-harari-100.jpg) Yuval Noah Harari 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/yuval-noah-harari/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-kurzweil-77527.jpg) Ray Kurzweil 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/ray-kurzweil/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-dalio-77503.jpg) Ray Dalio 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/ray-dalio/) ## More by Richard Dawkins > [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/richard-dawkins/#itemlist", "name": "24 Computers Quotes By Richard Dawkins", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human beings are just gene machines.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/human-beings-are-just-gene-machines/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/richard-dawkins-115_computers_human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-1158_1158362.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/richard-dawkins-115_computers_human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-1158_1158362.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/richard-dawkins-115_computers_human-beings-are-just-gene-machines-1158_1158362.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human beings are just gene machines.” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The computers in which memes live are human brains.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-human-brains/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e2/richard-dawkins-115_computers_the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-hu_513586.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e2/richard-dawkins-115_computers_the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-hu_513586.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e2/richard-dawkins-115_computers_the-computers-in-which-memes-live-are-hu_513586.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The computers in which memes live are human brains.” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Writing a computer virus program is child's play. 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