Computers Quote by Douglas Adams

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

— Douglas Adams

The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices.…

— R. Stanley Williams

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

— Al Gore

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds…

— Marvin Minsky

A computer is any television with a calculater in front of it.

— Ace Kid

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

— Tony Fadell

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

— Sherry Turkle

“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating, comparing, and…

— Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face,…

— Kevin Kelly

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

— Neil Postman

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

— Mona Simpson