Computer Network Quotes

#1. The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Clifford Stoll

#2. The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

Robert David Steele

#3. The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

Eric S. Raymond

#4. If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

Edward Snowden

#5. No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Clifford Stoll

#6. The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit.

Jarett Kobek

#7. When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.

Scott McNealy

#8. You can see the MAC address for a computer's network adapter by opening a command window and running the ipconfig /all command, as shown in Figure 2-2.

Doug Lowe

#9. SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change - like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. (There's something wonderfully vindicating about this analogy.)

Jennifer Senior

#10. This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

Scott McNealy

#11. Every dreamer thinks their dream is the true one.

Marty Rubin

#12. What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

Dave Barry

#13. Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

Tim Berners-Lee

#14. The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other ...

Dave Barry

#15. Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#16. I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

Stephen Hawking

#17. I guess, anything and everything that she wants. Marriage, babies, travelling the world, whatever it may be. I'm my strongest and happiest when she is with me, so all I need is her. I intend to love and cherish that girl until the end of time, and more if it's possible.

Angela Richardson

#18. Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#19. The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

#20. If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Dan Farmer

#21. Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies.

Michael Moss

#22. The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

Robert Cailliau

#23. Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

Si Robertson

#24. All the computers in the world are on a network. They're linked by our cuffs. But I'm a computer. Jack's a computer - Akilah - PA Young - all the cy-clones. We're all computers.
You know the great thing about computers?
They can be hacked.

Beth Revis

#25. All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Don Tapscott

#26. The network is the computer.

Scott McNealy

#27. The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.

John Collison

#28. Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

David R. Ellis

#30. How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

Rene Descartes

#31. It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security.

David Chiles

#32. BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

Dan Kaminsky

#33. meritocracies. Computer programming didn't operate as an old-boy network,

Anonymous

#34. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

Megan Smith