Computer Quotes

"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has"

Chris Wedge, Director

"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

"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little"

James Marsters, Actor

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field"

Ted Nelson, Author

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age"

Gerald Griffin, Author

"Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38"

David Crane

"Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it"

Sue Johanson, Writer

"All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools"

David Coverdale, Musician

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old"

Laura San Giacomo, Actress

"The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer"

Vance Packard, Writer

"I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing"

Jerry Mathers, Actor

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone"

Neil Kurshan

"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard"

Midge Ure, Musician

"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures"

Carrie Underwood, Musician

"I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off"

David Tudor, Musician

"Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits"

Piers Corbyn, Scientist

"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"

Matthew McConaughey, Actor

"I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week"

Karen Black, Actress

"I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy"

Winston Graham, Novelist

"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go"

Rainn Wilson, Actor

"I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks"

Florence Henderson, Actress

"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants"

Aaron Klug, Physicist

"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing"

John Searle, Philosopher

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