Computers Quote by Pearl S. Buck

“And he’d realized computers could be a tool to unite society.”

— Neal Stephenson

“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to…

— Michael Lewis

“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.”

— John Pfeiffer

“My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more…

— Charles Yu

“It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.”

— Greg Egan

“One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of…

— Russell Banks

“That night was like the first computer program he ever wrote: a series of run-time errors followed by a quick compilation.”

— A.G. Riddle

“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And”

— Jane Austen

“Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.”

— Vernor Vinge

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than…

— Harper Lee

“He made an impassioned speech about man fading in the shadow of the machine, losing our individual rights as our computer technology takes over…

— David A. Goodman