Quotes for Computers

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

Major Owens

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

Steve Jobs

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

Isaac Asimov

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Peter Thiel

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

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

Tim O'Reilly

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

Sydney J. Harris

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

John Lasseter

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

James H. Clark

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

Peter Thiel

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Peter Drucker

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

Ellen Ullman

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

Paul R. Ehrlich

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Alvin Toffler

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Steve Case

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

Steve Wozniak

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

Ellen Ullman

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.

Matt Mullenweg