Computer famous quotes
04-23-2025
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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 -
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
-- Alain Robert -
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
-- Alan Bennett -
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
-- Alan Cooper -
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
-- Alan Kay -
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
-- Alan Kay -
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
-- Alan Lomax -
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
-- Alan Perlis -
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
-- Alan Perlis -
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
-- Alan Perlis -
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
-- Alan Perlis -
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
-- Albert Einstein -
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
-- Alexander Siddig -
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
-- Alexander Waugh -
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
-- Alison Gopnik -
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
-- Alvin Toffler -
This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
-- Amy Poehler -
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
-- Anders Hejlsberg -
I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
-- Andrew Stanton -
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
-- Andy Rooney -
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
-- Anita Borg -
Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.
-- Ann McLane Kuster -
I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.
-- Annalena McAfee -
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.
-- Arno Allan Penzias -
My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
-- Avi Rubin -
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.
-- Avi Rubin -
As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.
-- Avi Rubin -
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I also love a good cheesy movie, and I'm kind of addicted to my computer.
-- Behati Prinsloo -
More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.
-- Ben Shneiderman -
I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.
-- Ben Whishaw -
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
-- Bill Budge -
I just became one with my browser software.
-- Bill Griffith -
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
-- Bill James -
What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.
-- Bill Joy -
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
-- Bill Laswell -
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
-- Bill McCollum -
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
-- Bill Nighy -
I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
-- Boris Becker -
For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
-- Boris Spassky -
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.
-- Bow Wow -
Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
-- Bram Cohen -
I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
-- Brian Eno -
The computer brings out the worst in some people.
-- Brian Eno -
The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.
-- Brian Eno -
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
-- Brian Eno -
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernighan -
It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.
-- Brian Regan -
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
-- Brian Reid -
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 -
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
-- Burt Rutan -
All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.
-- Butler Lampson -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
-- Carla Bruni -
I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.
-- Carrie-Anne Moss -
No, I consider myself computer illiterate.
-- Casper Van Dien -
Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible."
-- Charles Babbage -
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
-- Charles Bass -
I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.
-- Charles Manson -
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
-- Charles Petzold -
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.
-- Charles Simonyi -
It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.
-- Chris Cooper -
Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.
-- Chris Ware -
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
-- Christian Marclay -
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
-- Christopher Plummer -
The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy.
-- Christopher Wray -
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
-- Clifford Stoll -
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
-- Clifford Stoll -
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.
-- Clifford Stoll -
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
-- Clifford Stoll -
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
-- Clive Thompson -
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.
-- Cordelia Fine -
I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.
-- Craig Fairbrass -
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
-- Craig Reucassel -
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
-- Dalai Lama -
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 -
People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
-- Dan Farmer -
In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.
-- Daniel Crevier -
I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.
-- Daniel J. Bernstein -
Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.
-- Danielle Bunten Berry -
Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
-- Danny Boyle -
The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
-- Danny Hillis -
An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
-- Darynda Jones -
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
-- David Chalmers -
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.
-- David Deutsch
