Computers Quotes

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

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.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.