Computer Quotes

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Living with computers gives funny ideas.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.