Computer Quotes

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.

I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.