Computers Quote by Walter Isaacson

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very…

— Steve Jobs

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

— Fred Brooks

“Let the computer do the repetitious, the mundane—it will do a better job of it than we would. We've got more important and more…

— Andrew Hunt

“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

“Studies have shown that the time to complete even simple tasks, such as sorting geometric shapes, significantly degrades when multitasking. Of”

— Gene Kim

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order,…

— Ellen Ullman

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

— John Maeda

The computers people have are no longer on their desks but in their hands, and that is probably the transformative feature of the technology.…

— Caterina Fake

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

— Kent Beck

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to…

— Andy Rooney

“The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of…

— George Friedman

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a…

— Joanne Harris