Computer Quotes at FixQuotes

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"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

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"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

"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"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

"Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

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

Roger McGough, Poet

"If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

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

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot"

Dave Barry, Author

"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer"

Dave Barry, Author

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games"

Magnus Carlsen

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer"

Paul R. Ehrlich, Scientist

"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is"

Michael Biehn, Actor

"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many"

Glenn Turner, Athlete

"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer"

Alicia Witt, Actress

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