Computers Quotes

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

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

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

The computer is a moron.

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

The internet is not for sissies.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.