Quotes for Computers

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

Dale Dougherty

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

Wietse Venema

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Philip Emeagwali

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

Martin Garrix

Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.

Mark Skousen

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

Martin Gore

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Bob Kahn

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Bill Laswell

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Alan Turing

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

Charles Pollock

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

Taylor Kitsch

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

Chris Riddell

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

Arvind Gupta

AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers.

Adam Lashinsky

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

Robert Ludlum

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

Jacques Villeneuve

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

Brad Schneider

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

Tom Chatfield

I don't really love computers.

John Maeda