Computer Quotes

• If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

  

  Niklas Zennstrom
  • Computer
  • Resource
  • User

• Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Ability
  • Sense
  • Guarantee

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

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Reason
  • Computer
  • Buy

• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Environment
  • Steam
  • Descendants

• By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Money
  • Routine
  • E-mail

• 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.

  

  Keith Fullerton Whitman
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Hours

• I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • School
  • Project
  • Junior

• This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

  

  Canning Fok
  • Cameras
  • Phones
  • Smallest

• Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Jobs
  • Internet
  • Lasts

• Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

  

  Steve Wozniak
  • Trust
  • Computer
  • Throw Out

• Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Achievement
  • Conclusion
  • Definition

• Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Games

• The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Writing
  • School
  • Michigan

• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Work
  • Software
  • Planner

• If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Change
  • Photograph
  • Manipulation

• My Ph.D. is in computer vision and machine learning. I developed software that can read your emotions from your face as part of my doctorate work.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Face
  • Emotions
  • Developed

• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Humans
  • Information
  • Significant

• I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened. He tried to feed a bus a carrot, and now you're telling me this country has computers? I didn't know that.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Country
  • Brother
  • Horse

• I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

  

  Paul Putner
  • Want
  • Stuff
  • Use

• If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

  

  will.i.am
  • Want
  • Musician
  • Coders

• Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Life
  • Real
  • Outside

• When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in a small room with my computer running GarageBand, which is always set to record.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Always
  • Around
  • Album

• The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Games
  • Computer

• I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

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