Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

Once I have something that I think I can work with, then I'll go in and make it on the computer. I'll try to recapture the sound that I had in my head when I was thinking about it. That's usually how I do it.

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

One of the fantastic things about Silicon Valley is that it's both the birthplace of technology and it was one of the birthplaces of the counterculture. The Internet and the personal computer were going to be like the communes, where we would all be networked together, and we would be able to achieve this state of global consciousness.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

Only if the computers really love each other.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that we make with artists. And it's all synchronized.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.