Communication Quote by Jonathan Meades

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done…

— Alan Turing

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

— Marvin Minsky

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

— Mona Simpson

It's both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence, many of…

— Lina Khan

I don't know anything about computers.

— Adam Carolla

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have…

— Massimo Vignelli

The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering,…

— William J. Mitchell

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

— James Dyson

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in…

— Clifford Stoll

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

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