Computer Quotes

"The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"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

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

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"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

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

Roger McGough, Poet

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

Dave Barry, Author

"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

"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

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

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"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

"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

"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

"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination"

Maya Lin, Architect

"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding"

William Gibson, Writer

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"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

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone"

Richard Branson, Businessman

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

Larry Ellison, Businessman

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

Glenn Turner, Athlete

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