Computer Course Quotes

#1. In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

#2. The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon.

Michael Grant

#4. We are at a turning point of revolution species. Evolution has blindly felt its way forward , now, we, the product of evolution are taking the wheel. We soon will have the ability to design and create the new human, evolution still, but guided evolution ... of course, only on computer simulation.

Michael Grant

#5. My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.

Robert Scoble

#6. I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.

Marissa Mayer

#7. And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

Dave Barry

#8. I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitchel Resnick

#9. My computer made a funny sound the other day. Of course, I've never heard it get thrown out a window before.

Various

#10. I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

Golan Levin

#11. I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.

Pat Cadigan

#12. In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

Aaron Klug

#13. Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

Gerald Edelman

#15. They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.

Paulo Coelho

#16. These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Thomas Frank

#17. Of course, they haven't seen your reports yet. (Joe)
'They would have if Carlos could have held a gun on the computer to make that piece of shit send an e-mail.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.

Neil Postman

#19. When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

Sally Mann

#20. An old guy was asked if he had ever googled himself. Probably not computer literate, he answered: "Of course, we all did, but we didn't call it that.

Mike Bove

#21. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

Steve Jobs

#22. I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

Atticus Shaffer

#23. I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

Ian Rankin

#24. Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful.

Phillip Tomasso III

#25. Wikipedia is run by hippies of course - the same kind of impractical utopian losers who gave us the first affordable desktop computer and the iPod

Andre The BFG

#26. I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course
the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

Douglas Adams

#27. The Prophet database (of course, the whole IT - computer geek - world called it the For-Profit database) was well written, but all the programs the mother company tried to sell with it were garbage.

Patricia Briggs

#28. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#29. The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

#31. 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

#32. The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.

Kim Zetter

#33. What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist.

Brian Christian

#34. I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

Paul Lansky