Computer Quotes

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"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

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

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"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

"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

"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

"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"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

"To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"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

"We don't want to turn the TV into a computer"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing"

Kelly Hu, Actress

"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it"

Jo Stafford, Musician

"Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with"

Paul Kane, Writer

"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing"

Roy Romer, Politician

"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

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

Clifford Stoll, Author

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

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