Computer Quotes
2161 quotes by 1390 authors
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very…
— William Gibson
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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
— Brian Eno
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No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental…
— Jack Kornfield
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement
— Brian Eno
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Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about…
— Moshe Safdie
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
— Andy Rooney
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I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
— George Gilder
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
— Alan Kay
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The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it…
— Donald Knuth
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making…
— Donald Knuth
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Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.
— Donald Knuth
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By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
— Ray Kurzweil
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It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
— Marc Andreessen
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried…
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
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BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.
— Seymour Papert
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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
— Eric S. Raymond
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I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
— Linus Torvalds
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Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.
— Scott McNealy
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