Computer Quotes

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. (Steve Wozniak)
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. View quote
Stephen Hawking
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. View quote
Donald Knuth
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. View quote
Ken Olsen
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. View quote
Brian Kernighan
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? View quote
Tom Clancy
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. View quote
Donald Knuth
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. (Emo Philips)
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. View quote
John Searle
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds. View quote
Alessandra Torresani
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. View quote
Jef Raskin
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. View quote
Vance Packard
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. View quote
Grace Hopper
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. (Stephen Hawking)
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. View quote
Stephen Hawking
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. View quote
Steve Jobs
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. View quote
Steve Jobs
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. View quote
Steve Jobs