Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

When comparing human memory and computer memory it is clear that the human version has two distinct disadvantages. Firstly, as indeed I have experienced myself, due to ageing, human memory can exhibit very poor short term recall.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

Why have computers? Politicians are far more calculating.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?