Computer Quotes
2161 quotes by 1390 authors
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I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of…
— John F. Kennedy
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I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
— Roger McGough
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The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
— John Cale
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In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.
— Brian Chesky
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Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than…
— Douglas Trumbull
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My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or…
— Douglas Trumbull
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications…
— Danny Hillis
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
— Danny Hillis
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have…
— Steve Case
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It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the…
— Bob Lutz
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Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in…
— Ziggy Marley
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If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what…
— Cory Doctorow
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If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena…
— Rudy Rucker
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When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not…
— Rudy Rucker
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Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.
— Robin Ince
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers…
— Hal Varian
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
— Eric Allin Cornell
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Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
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Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States,
— Howard Aiken
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