Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

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

I've never been that technologically savvy, my friends are actually amused by how infrequently I use computers.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

I was always interested in technology. When personal computers came out, I was one of the first to pick one up and begin playing with it. My hobbies tend to be not about going fishing or hiking, but about playing on machines. Just like some people like helicopters and tanks and cars, I like technology a lot.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

I was shocked when I looked at art schools in France. There's only one left that does anatomy. Now they do video. They do editing. I would go to film school if I wanted to do video and editing. In art school, it's only new mediums. It's three-dimensional or computer. I found that shocking. No nudes.

I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music. I didn't know where to begin, I'm so bad at computers, and I remembered that he actually made music. I asked Astro Raw if he'd be interested in scoring and he said yes.

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.

I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.

I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

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

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

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.

Just don't create a file called '-rf.'

Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

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.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

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

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train

Make it just like a Mac.

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

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

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.

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.