Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

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

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

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

Mr. Herschel... brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam," to which Herschel replied, "It is quite possible.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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

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.

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Never tell a computer to forget it.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

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.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

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.

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.

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.

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