Computer Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

I also love a good cheesy movie, and I'm kind of addicted to my computer.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.