Computer Quotes

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The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites. — Tom DeLonge
The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major… — Kirsty Gallacher
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic… — Richard Fortey
The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While itâ€™s essential to heed these, itâ€™s also… — Sharon Lee
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. — Colin Greenwood
People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! — Luis von Ahn
We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and… — Candace Cameron
Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people?… — Theodore Kaczynski
It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up… — Roy H. Williams
Farmers buy a lot of computers. — Seymour Cray
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and… — Roberta Williams
I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. — Jamie Zawinski
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. — James Dyson
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from… — Dalai Lama
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. — Jef Raskin
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. — Jef Raskin
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today. — Jef Raskin
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets. — Marvin Minsky
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now… — Edsger Dijkstra

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