244 Quotes on Computer Ratings & Comments

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Author: Steve Wozniak

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Author: Steve Wozniak

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Author: Steve Wozniak

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

Author: Lee Womack

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Author: Alicia Witt

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

Author: April Winchell

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

Author: Rainn Wilson

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Author: Kenneth Wilson

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

Author: Kenneth Wilson

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Author: A. Wilson

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

Author: Roberta Williams

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

Author: Roberta Williams

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Author: Roberta Williams

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Author: David Wilkerson

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Author: Eugene Wigner

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

Author: Deryck Whibley

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.

Author: Chris Wedge

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

Author: Marc Wallice

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

Author: Larry Wall

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Author: Larry Wall

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

Author: Miroslav Vitous

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls.

Author: Wietse Venema

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Author: Wietse Venema

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

Author: Midge Ure

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.

Author: Carrie Underwood

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

Author: Nobuo Uematsu

After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many.

Author: Glenn Turner

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Author: Alan Turing

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Author: David Tudor

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Author: Douglas Trumbull

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Author: Douglas Trumbull

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Author: Douglas Trumbull

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Author: Douglas Trumbull

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

Author: Douglas Trumbull

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

Author: Mike Thompson

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

Author: Ken Thompson

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Author: Lewis Thomas

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Author: Clifford Stoll

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Author: George Stephen

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Author: Jo Stafford

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Author: Boris Spassky

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

Author: Christian Slater

But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer.

Author: Sinbad

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Author: Herbert Simon

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

Author: Bobby Sherman

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Author: Rupert Sheldrake

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

Author: Robert Shea

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Author: John Searle

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

Author: William Scranton

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Author: Gerald Scarfe

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Author: Gerald Scarfe

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

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.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie

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.

Author: Fred Saberhagen

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.

Author: Fred Saberhagen

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Author: Rudy Rucker

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Author: Andy Rooney

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Author: Roy Romer

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

Author: Kevin Rollins

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Author: Herb Ritts

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Author: Anne Rice

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

Author: Janet Reno

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

Author: Eric Raymond

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Author: Dan Rather

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Author: Jef Raskin

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Author: Jef Raskin

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

Author: Theo Raadt

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

Author: Paul Putner

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Author: Jack Prelutsky

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

Author: Jon Postel

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

Author: Jon Postel

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

Author: Jon Postel

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Author: Frederik Pohl

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

Author: Frederik Pohl

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Author: Christopher Plummer

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Author: Rosamund Pike

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Author: Emo Philips

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Author: Emo Philips

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Author: Alan Perlis

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Author: Alan Perlis

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Author: Richard Perle

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

Author: Robert Patterson

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Author: Vance Packard

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Author: Robert Orben

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Author: Ken Olsen

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Author: Ken Olsen

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

Author: Ed O'Brien

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

Author: Ed O'Brien

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Author: Lennart Nilsson

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Author: Ben Nicholson

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Author: Arnold Newman

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Author: John Neumann

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

Author: Ted Nelson

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Author: Ted Nelson

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

Author: Ted Nelson

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.

Author: Ted Nelson

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

Author: Graham Nelson

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Author: Edward Murrow

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Author: Patty Murray

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

Author: Dennis Muren

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

Author: Robert Mueller

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Author: Lord Mountbatten

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Author: Marvin Minsky

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Author: Marvin Minsky

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

Author: Arthur Miller

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

Author: Ralph Merkle

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Author: Russell Means

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Author: Marian McPartland

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Author: Robert McNamara

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

Author: Roger McGough

Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

Author: Todd McFarlane

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

Author: Norma McCorvey

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

Author: Steve McConnell

No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

Author: Matthew McConaughey

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

Author: Jerry Mathers

Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

Author: Demetri Martin

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.

Author: James Marsters

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Author: Aimee Mann

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.

Author: Margaret Mahy

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

Author: Clare Luce

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

Author: Seth Lloyd

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Author: Seth Lloyd

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

Author: Seth Lloyd

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Author: Maya Lin

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

Author: Steven Levy

The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Author: Steven Levy

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.

Author: Arthur Levitt

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

Author: Annie Leibovitz

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Author: Tim Lee

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

Author: Sanaa Lathan

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Author: John Lasseter

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

Author: John Lasseter

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Author: Ray Kurzweil

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Author: Donald Knuth

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Author: Donald Knuth

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Author: Donald Knuth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Author: Donald Knuth

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.

Author: Aaron Klug

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Author: Jack Kilby

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Author: Mark Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Author: John Kennedy

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Author: Kevin Kelly

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Author: Alan Kay

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

Author: Mitch Kapor

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Author: Paul Kantner

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Author: Paul Kane

Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.

Author: Sue Johanson

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Author: Steve Jobs

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Author: Eugene Jarvis

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

Author: Marc Jacobs

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Author: Michael Ignatieff

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

Author: Kelly Hu

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Author: Katie Holmes

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

Author: Martina Hingis

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Author: James Hillman

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.

Author: Andy Hertzfeld

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Author: Frank Herbert

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Author: Florence Henderson

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

Author: Dan Hawkins

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

Author: Gary Gygax

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

Author: Alfred Griswold

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

Author: Gerald Griffin

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Author: Colin Greenwood

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Author: Colin Greenwood

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Author: Colin Greenwood

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Author: Winston Graham

It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'

Author: Ronald Graham

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

Author: William Gibson

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

Author: Laura Giacomo

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Author: Bill Gates

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Author: Bill Gates

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

Author: Mary Garden

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Author: William Gaddis

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.

Author: Thomas Friedman

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.

Author: Brendan Fraser

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.

Author: Thomas Frank

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.

Author: Raymond Feist

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Author: Dan Farmer

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Author: Shawn Fanning

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Author: Brian Eno

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Author: Philip Emeagwali

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Author: Larry Ellison

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Author: Paul Ehrlich

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.

Author: Sibel Edmonds

The computer is a moron.

Author: Peter Drucker

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Author: K. Drexler

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

Author: Thomas Dolby

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Author: Thomas Dolby

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

Author: Casper Dien

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

Author: Kate DiCamillo

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Author: Dorothy Denning

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Author: Jacques Delors

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Author: Richard Dawkins

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

Author: Catherine Crier

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

Author: David Crane

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Author: David Coverdale

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Author: Piers Corbyn

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

Author: John Coleman

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Author: Joe Cocker

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

Author: Arthur Clarke

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

Author: Laurel Clark

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Author: Tom Clancy

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Author: James Chiles

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.

Author: David Chalmers

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Author: Vinton Cerf

We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.

Author: Steve Case

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

Author: John Cale

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Author: Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Author: Bill Budge

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Author: Sydney Brenner

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Author: Rory Bremner

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

Author: Richard Branson

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Author: Malcolm Boyd

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Author: Erma Bombeck

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Author: Erma Bombeck

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

Author: Don Bluth

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Author: Karen Black

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.

Author: Jimmy Black

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

Author: Michael Biehn

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

Author: Danielle Berry

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Author: Daniel Bernstein

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

Author: Dave Barry

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Author: Dave Barry

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Author: Majel Barrett

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

Author: John Badham

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

Author: Sebastian Bach

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Author: Norman Augustine

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Author: Isaac Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Author: Isaac Asimov

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Author: Tadao Ando

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Author: Casey Abrams