Computers Quotes

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Computers make me totally blank out.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

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.

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.

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

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.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

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.

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.