Computer Quotes

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Computers are stupid.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I don't know anything about computers.

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

The display is the computer.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.