Computer Quotes

• Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Computer
  • Translate
  • Swear

• The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Computer

• I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

  

  Mike O'Malley
  • Computer
  • Tire
  • Fuse

• There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Sea
  • Hands
  • Driven

• Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

  

  Enrico Bombieri
  • Role
  • Computer
  • Proofs

• In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Winning
  • Mistake
  • Computer

• I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Trees

• Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

  

  David Ferrier
  • Working
  • Speed
  • Million

• The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Person
  • Driving
  • Pencil

• I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

  

  Neil Farber
  • Computer
  • Written
  • Album

• My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.

  

  Dave Asprey
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Coffee

• I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Internet
  • Reader

• I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Emotional
  • Inspired
  • Hours

• Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Persons
  • Internet
  • Computer

• People don't work in factories, they aren't big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • People
  • Labor
  • Factories

• The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Computer

• I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Minutes
  • Faster

• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  

  Richard Lovelace
  • Heart
  • Grace
  • Transformation

• An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Song
  • Culture
  • Moments

• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

  

  Roberta Williams
  • Adventure
  • Computer
  • Microsoft

• Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Car
  • Computer

• There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Computer
  • Cheap

• If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Internet
  • Computer

• Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Physics

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