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Computer Quotes by Douglas Adams
- The future of computer power is pure simplicity.
- I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good…
- A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body…
- I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to…
- For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -…
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it…
- We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't…
- Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a…
- The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to…
- Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at…
- I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't…
- A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was…
- Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
More Computer Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. — Dave Barry
- A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov