Computer Quote by Donald Knuth Download Open image “Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.” — Donald Knuth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computer language Computer programming Computer software Computers Computing Following Following instructions Funny computer Funny inspirational Instruction Mind Programming Programming languages Psychology Reading Software engineering
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. — Adam Osborne Copy Share Image
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. — Prince Copy Share Image
I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers. — Juliana of the Netherlands Copy Share Image
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.” — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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