Computer Quotes

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

His computer password is "password.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.