Computer Quotes

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age"

Joe Cocker, Musician

"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer"

Sinbad, Comedian

"My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s"

Paul Kantner, Musician

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!"

Patty Murray, Politician

"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

"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank"

John Cale, Musician

"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives"

Paul Kane, Writer

"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"No, I consider myself computer illiterate"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

"If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking"

Ted Nelson, Author

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage"

Robert McNamara, Public Servant

"We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum"

Philip Greenspun, Scientist

"People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear"

Dan Farmer, Scientist

"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services"

Kenneth G. Wilson, Scientist

"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too"

Eugene Wigner, Physicist

"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

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