Computer Quotes

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

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.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

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

Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

I can barely turn on my computer!

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

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

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.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

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

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

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

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

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

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.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

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.

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