Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

The computer is a moron.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

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

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

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

The display is the computer.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

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

The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

The internet is not for sissies.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

The iWatch will fill a gaping hole in the Apple ecosystem. It will facilitate and coordinate not only the activities of all the other computers and devices we use, but a wide array of devices to come.

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

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.

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.