Computer Quotes

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Computers are not accountable. People are.