Computers Quote by Saul Bellow

“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly…

— Philip K. Dick

“Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.”

— Amit Kalantri

“And then he bent his own neck and put the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the ground with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The only thing he hadn’t done was hornswoggle, and that was only because he hadn’t found out how to.”

— Terry Pratchett

“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him, but mere…

— Morton N. Cohen

“It was almost impossible to operate with the best gear. The most effective weapons were the ones most hardest to obtain. More often than…

— Tom Wood

“He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture…

— Jonathan Swift

“It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one.”

— Kady Cross

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was…

— Kurt Vonegat

“It had been the most complex, difficult feat of mass-scale engineering humanity had ever accomplished until the next thing they did.”

— James S.A. Corey

“It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I was amazed at how routine, how mechanically this most powerful intellect was created. It was no burst of inspiration, but almost physical labor…

— Vadim Babenko