Computers Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.