Computers Quotes

764 quotes by 542 authors

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them. — Douglas Rushkoff
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more… — Douglas Rushkoff
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over… — Douglas Rushkoff
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every… — Douglas Rushkoff
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking… — Douglas Rushkoff
Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. — Anne Rice
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger Dijkstra
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… — Douglas Adams
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual… — Orson Scott Card
Computers don't kill books; people do. — Douglas Rushkoff
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… — Douglas Adams
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder — Eoin Colfer
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four. — Thom Yorke
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put… — Dan Brown
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me… — Michel Houellebecq
He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.… — Joe Hill
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven

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