Computer Quotes

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You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone, — Steve Ballmer
If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards. — Ted Nelson
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go… — Raymond E. Feist
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with… — Perry Farrell
The purpose of computers is human freedom. — Ted Nelson
You can and must understand computers NOW. — Ted Nelson
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as… — Ted Nelson
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. — Alan Kay
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So… — Alan Kay
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a… — Ivan Sutherland
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. — Ivan Sutherland
We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes, — Jack Tramiel
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off. — David Tudor
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously,… — Ken Robinson
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad. — Michel Gondry
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind… — Jon Postel
You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock… — Erich Hartmann
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a… — Philip Alston
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world. — Aaron Levie
Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of… — Dave Barry

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