Computers Quote by Peter Drucker

There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity…

— Felix Dennis

With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected…

— Rodney Brooks

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

— Mitch Kapor

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go…

— Satya Nadella

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton

“The big change has been in the hardware/software cost ratio. The buyer of a $2-million machine in 1960 felt that he could afford $250,000…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is…

— Marco Arment

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important…

— Linus Torvalds

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher…

— Bill Gross

“It was a mystery with one intriguing clue: programmers from the same companies performed at more or less the same level, even though they…

— Susan Cain

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

— Bjarne Stroustrup