Computers Quotes

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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.

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

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

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

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.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

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.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

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

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.

I don't really love computers.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

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.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

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

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.

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

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

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.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

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

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

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

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.

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

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

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 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.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

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.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

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

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

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.

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.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

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

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.