Quotes on Computer

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Author: Sydney Brenner

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

Author: John Cale

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

Author: Steve Case

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Author: Vinton Cerf

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

Author: James Chiles

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

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

Author: Arthur Clarke

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

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

Author: Casper Dien

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

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

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

The computer is a moron.

Author: Peter Drucker

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

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

Author: Paul Ehrlich

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

Author: Larry Ellison

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

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

Author: Shawn Fanning

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

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 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

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

Author: Mary Garden

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

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

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

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

Author: Colin Greenwood

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

Author: Dan Hawkins

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

Author: Martina Hingis

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

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

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

Author: Eugene Jarvis

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

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

Author: Paul Kantner

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

Author: Mitch Kapor

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Author: John Kennedy

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

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

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

Author: Annie Leibovitz

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

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 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

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

Author: Seth Lloyd

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

Author: Clare Luce

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 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

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

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

Author: Matthew McConaughey

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

Author: Steve McConnell

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

Author: Norma McCorvey

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

Author: Roger McGough

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

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

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

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

Author: Patty Murray

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

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

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

Author: Ted Nelson

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

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

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

Author: Robert Patterson

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

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

Author: Alan Perlis

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

Author: Emo Philips

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

Author: Rosamund Pike

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

Author: Christopher Plummer

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 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

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

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

Author: Dan Rather

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

Author: Eric Raymond

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

Author: Janet Reno

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

Author: Roy Romer

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

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

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

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'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

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

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

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

Author: Jo Stafford

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

Author: Clifford Stoll

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

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

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

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

Author: Alan Turing

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

Author: Glenn Turner

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Eugene Wigner

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

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

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

Author: Kenneth Wilson

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

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

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Author: Jamie Zawinski