Top 100 My Computer Quotes
#1. I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.
Stephan Pastis
#2. I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#3. I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover.
Julie Klausner
#4. Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
Betty Parsons
#5. There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
Gary Ross
#6. I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.
Melina Marchetta
#7. I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.
Brendan Fraser
#8. I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#9. When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.
Sloane Stephens
#10. When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
Elizabeth George
#11. The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out - I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer - it's horrible.
Peter Seibel
#12. A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied But my computer revolves around the world
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#13. A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.
James Lipton
#14. I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.
Robert Webb
#15. I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
Lisa Unger
#16. No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry
#17. Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.
Philipp Meyer
#18. Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.
Brian Pinkerton
#19. I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer
The Oatmeal
#20. All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.
Rose Byrne
#21. I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
David Duchovny
#22. I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
Carrie Underwood
#23. My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions.
Tracie Peterson
#24. For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.
Koren Zailckas
#25. Please leave my computer alone.. The only cookies I want to get are the ones I can eat.
Heather Wolf
#26. My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#27. I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
Jami Attenberg
#29. I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.
Justin Bieber
#30. My computer is a tool not a way of life. The real world is outside.
Kirk Ward Robinson
#31. Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.
Thighpaulsandra
#32. On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.
Jodi Picoult
#33. I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.
Ian Astbury
#34. When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
JC Chasez
#35. If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.
Jeremy Clarkson
#36. I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.
Christy Hall
#37. I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.
Kyrie Irving
#38. My computer made a funny sound the other day. Of course, I've never heard it get thrown out a window before.
Various
#39. I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.
Jean Pigozzi
#40. KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.
Girl Talk
#41. I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer!
Meg Cabot
#42. I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and it still cracks me up. It's actually my homepage on my computer.
Reid Scott
#43. If there's a will, there's a way!
I feel larger than LIFE
and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders ... as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..
Donna Scrima-Black
#44. When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
D. B. Weiss
#45. Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.
Vincent Collins
#46. Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
Beyonce Knowles
#47. My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
Gabriel Campisi
#48. The best thing ever done is just to sit on my computer and to watch there television, I decide when to stop and when to start. I decide what to be and what not to be.
Deyth Banger
#49. But perhaps Kira Dallaire wasn't exactly what she seemed to be. I sat down at my desk and turned on my computer to google her. One good turn deserved another.
Mia Sheridan
#50. Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
Demetri Martin
#51. There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
Lisa Unger
#52. I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
Ann Turner
#53. I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
Eve Bunting
#54. I have a beautiful platter of various fruits as my computer screen saver. It's a constant reminder to eat healthy! It helps me to make healthier food choices throughout my day.
Drew Sidora
#55. If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
Rachel Platten
#56. I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.
Jason McCoy
#57. My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world
Charles Stross
#58. When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.
Martin Garrix
#59. I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
Steve Perry
#60. At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
Sibel Edmonds
#61. I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer.
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#62. Aim for a million bucks, you suddenly need a billion. I upgraded my computer, but it wasn't enough. No matter what, it ain't fucken enough in life, that's what I learned
D.B.C. Pierre
#63. If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver
#64. I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress
#65. Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.
Chris Colfer
#66. I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.
Augusten Burroughs
#67. I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many "feels" as the kids on Tumblr - my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it - often say.
Meg Cabot
#69. I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
Huey Lewis
#70. I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
Clifford Stoll
#71. I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster ... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.
Steve Jobs
#72. I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.
Ann Turner
#73. My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips
#74. My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
Isabel Allende
#75. I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#76. Eh, I'll just get another computer. This will be my Disney trip computer." My parents had boxes of photos in their closets. Now we have old computers in our closets. "Hey, honey, there's our wedding computer." "There's my computer from when I was single. I guess I should destroy that one.
Jim Gaffigan
#77. I also love a good cheesy movie, and I'm kind of addicted to my computer.
Behati Prinsloo
#78. Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.
Steve Gleason
#79. Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'
Denis Leary
#80. I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.
Jill Soloway
#81. 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.
Geraldine Brooks
#82. Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.
Amber Benson
#83. This is what makes me happy: ... Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
Art Buchwald
#84. Some of the nicest people I've never met live inside my computer.
Andrew Southwood
#85. I send him an email back informing him that since this is his nineteenth relative in grave danger, he needs to either consult a tantric to remove a curse on his family or to simply stop lying to take extra days off. I shut my computer and hurriedly get ready to reach the office.
Twinkle Khanna
#86. I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
Donny Deutsch
#87. I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have a real impetus when I'm sitting at my computer. Now that I know what it's like to get to bring characters and their stories to fruition, I'm addicted. I'm a junkie. I want more.
Coley Sohn
#88. I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'
Steve Burns
#89. If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.
Raymond E. Feist
#90. He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone.
Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.
Patricia Briggs
#91. I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.
Bill Hader
#92. I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!
Amber Benson
#93. In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.
Julia Glass
#94. My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?
Richard Dawkins
#95. I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
Deborah Harkness
#96. As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.
Kate Bush
#97. My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
Edward Abbey
#98. I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.
Jens Lekman
#99. DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you
Penny Reid
#100. I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.
Emilio Estevez
