Computer Quotes

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

Sit me at the keyboard of any computer in the world with access to the Internet, and in just 24 hours I’ll earn at least $24,000 in cash.

I don't even have my own computer.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

We've created life in our own image.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.

I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

The computer is a moron.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.