Computers Quotes

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.

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

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.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

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.