Computers Quotes

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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.

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.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

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

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.

The internet is not for sissies.

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