Computer Quotes
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In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.
Gerald Weinberg
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Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.
Erik Brynjolfsson
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Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.
Steve Chen
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iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
Steve Jobs
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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
Bill Gates
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The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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It is the thing that keeps me up at night - the notion that you have individuals in the United States who are looking at computer screens and who are becoming radicalized.
Eric Holder
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Farmers buy a lot of computers.
Seymour Cray
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
Seth Godin
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One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.
Michael Gove
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I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
Mitchel Resnick
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Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.
Terry Hayes
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Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
Scott Adams
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
William Thurston
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
Bill Gates
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It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.
Brian Regan
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Sugata Mitra
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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.
Haruki Murakami
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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.
Richard Powers
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I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
Ray Bradbury
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I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.
Bad Bunny
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Richard Feynman
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker