Computer Quote by Rupert Sheldrake

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

— Greg Perry

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

— Tristan Perich

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and…

— Donald Knuth

“To this day I have a profound mistrust of the word processor. I have to type it or write it first, screen it and…

— Shane Black

There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each…

— Alan Turing

Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead…

— Robertson Davies

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to…

— Lewis Mumford

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy…

— Richard P. Feynman

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

— Donald Knuth

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

— Kate Braverman