Computer Quotes

"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

"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 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

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

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

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

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"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

"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

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

Emo Philips, Comedian

"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

"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

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

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age"

Larry Wall, Author

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science"

Larry Wall, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"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

"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"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

"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

"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"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

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