Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.

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.

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

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it.

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

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

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

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

I never use a computer.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

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.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

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

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

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

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When I first got my Mac, I was exploring its possibilities and had fun with all of the sound hacking software, but I'm not interested in that approach. I toyed with the idea of releasing a 12-inch of all the stuff I did early on but good sense prevented me from doing so.

I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.

I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.