Computer Quotes

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

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

Emo Philips, Comedian

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home"

George Stephen, Businessman

"It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

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

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job"

George Stephen, Businessman

"There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed"

John Coleman, Businessman

"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground"

William Scranton, Politician

"Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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