Computers Quotes
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Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.
Andre Brie
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Computers make people stupid.
David Gelernter
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Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.
Noga Alon
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It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.
Brad Templeton
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It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
Bill Gates
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They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
Emil Ruder
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I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.
Barry Ptolemy
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My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
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I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.
Mitchell Joachim
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From the mid-eighteenth century onward, computers, frequently women, were on the payrolls of corporations, engineering firms, and universities, performing calculations and doing numerical analysis, sometimes with the use of a rudimentary calculator.
Brian Christian
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard Avishai
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It would take a lot of time and effort to repair the computers. And they can't run programs and games kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot.
Bob Schneider
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Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.
Eugene J. Martin
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We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.
Bill Clinton
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Computers are not accountable. People are.
George Richard Marek
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Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. It's also cool that CFY will also make sure that they learn how to use them.
Shad Gregory Moss
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Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
Mitch Kapor
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs
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Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!
Ernest Borgnine
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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
Steve Wozniak
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I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
Rick Boucher
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Computers are stupid.
Pablo Picasso
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates
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Some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same.
Brian Christian