Computers Quote by Orson Scott Card

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

“I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn’t just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software…

— Julie Holland

“Technology is made to fail.”

— Grace Y

“Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines in time…

— Melissa Terras

“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

“Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.”

— Dani Harper

“Be careful, and go slowly. Computers are intolerant of mistakes; they do just what you tell them to do, not what you meant for…

— Peter H. Gregory

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

— Anonymous

“Ten minutes later, the army had made a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard.”

— Liu Cixin

“We built digital tools to extend our attention and memory, then slowly surrendered our attention to the very systems designed to hold it.”

— Carson Anekeya

“Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)”

— Bobby Fischer

There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all the difficulties…

— John Glenn