Quotes About Computer

#1. People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

Tori Amos

#2. Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#3. Sitting behind a glass wall and having people do things on a computer - how realistic is that? We should be having conversations with people.

Cindy Alvarez

#4. At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

James Blake

#5. I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

Jan Koum

#6. Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Serge Haroche

#7. Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.

Vinton Cerf

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

Ted Nelson

#9. Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

Friedrich L. Bauer

#10. They'd tried automatically generating the stories in response to the figures but had ended up with nonsense - one scenario suggested by the computer was that a gang of toddlers had terrorised a war veteran with a syringe full of HIV positive blood.

Simon Dewar

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. She had discovered long ago that you could use a computer without understanding how it worked. Just as you could use an automobile, vacuum cleaner - or your own brain.

Michael Crichton

#14. I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Ben Whishaw

#15. If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

Terry Brooks

#16. Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

William Thurston

#17. I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Terry McMillan

#18. I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

Jacob Hashimoto

#19. In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

The Rocket Summer

#20. Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Bill Gates

#21. I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

Edsger Dijkstra

#22. 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

#23. Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

Susan Wojcicki

#24. 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

#25. This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

Chris Wedge

#26. What are you two doing in here?" Mike Iglehart wore an eye-blistering white lab coat and a surly expression. "This isn't some teenage make-out room."
My face flushed scarlet. "Excuse me?"
"We were using the computer!" Ben barked. "That's it.

Kathy Reichs

#27. Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

Alfred Aho

#28. Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

Michael A. Vine

#29. Computer viruses are alive.

Stephen Hawking

#30. I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

Joe Manganiello

#31. Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Lee Kuan Yew

#32. The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

Bruce Schneier

#33. A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Chris Prentiss

#34. The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

Alvin Toffler

#35. The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#36. It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve Wozniak

#37. He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have
everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.

Orson Scott Card

#38. But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

Ted Nelson

#39. Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Larry Page

#40. The brain is like a bio-computer that manufactures whatever we feed into it with our thoughts.

Marianne Williamson

#41. Its selection and vetting process. The workers, for their part, can hope for a steady flow of jobs and prompt payment with minimal fuss. Handy's computer system also tries to schedule each worker's jobs in such a way as to minimise travel time.

Anonymous

#42. When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

Jaron Lanier

#43. the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

Ted Sargent

#44. If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Bill Gates

#45. I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

#46. 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

#47. Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Martin Freeman

#48. God may not have a brain made of neurones, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

Anonymous

#49. I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

Ross Perot Jr.

#50. In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Paul Allen

#51. Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.

Craig Venter

#52. Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

Daniel Kahneman

#53. The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.

Ving Rhames

#54. Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map - these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Seth Godin

#55. This would involve disconnection - the computer equivalent of death. Despite

Arthur C. Clarke

#56. I learned long ago, back with 'Lover Revealed,' that my job is to sit at the computer, shut up and type. Otherwise? The pictures and the voices go away!

Jessica Bird

#57. Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

Andy Weir

#58. We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Marc Andreessen

#59. 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

#60. I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents ... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad ... you should be a caveman."

Mike Birbiglia

#61. When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

Steve Wozniak

#62. Graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters - or any other three-dimensional animations - into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3D printer.

Anonymous

#63. What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik

James Gleick

#64. SUBJECT: Real original
Dear Dark Assholes,
I get the point. Showing me that you know how to log onto a computer and utilize Google must've taken some pretty keen strategizing on your part.
Really, really cool trick. Now leave me the hell alone.
-The DL

S.L. Jennings

#65. On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo's computer as a shitload.

Sorin Suciu

#66. The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

Hal Finney

#67. 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

#68. God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Alexander Waugh

#69. If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

Martin Garrix

#70. Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

Robert A. Heinlein

#71. You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Steve Jobs

#72. He was much older and had the physique of someone who spent all his time behind a computer. The only way he'd have a six-pack was if he'd added it on Photoshop.

Laurie London

#73. 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

#74. I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Bill Gates

#75. These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer

Donald Knuth

#76. Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#77. 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

#78. I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

St. Vincent

#79. I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

Aaron Patzer

#80. You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Laura Dern

#81. No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Danielle Berry

#82. I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Fred Saberhagen

#83. I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

Arthur Bradford

#84. As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

Alexander Chee

#85. It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Nicholas Negroponte

#86. Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

Aaron Levie

#87. [Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and your brain never run out of brilliant ideas.

Jessica Lave

#88. The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

Tiffany Shlain

#89. The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

David Lagercrantz

#90. I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.

Jane Green

#91. I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

James Marsters

#92. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

Richard Stallman

#93. The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

Robert Stone

#94. I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

Tom Conrad

#95. You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it ... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

James St. James

#96. 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

#97. The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

Scott Adams

#98. People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Ty Segall

#99. Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#100. 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