Quotes for Computers

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.

Pranav Mistry

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.

Pranav Mistry

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

Pranav Mistry

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.

Geoffrey Hinton

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

Fei-Fei Li

It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged.

Patrick Collison

Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers.

Tobias Lutke

In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight - no phones, no computers, no light, no power. If we took a walk at night to go and find something to eat, it was completely black, with no lights coming out of the windows, no street lights: a very apocalyptic feeling.

Lee Ranaldo

I think that is one of the main goals of pushing forward in machine learning: having computers provide the wisdom that a human companion would be able to provide in offering advice, looking up more information when necessary and those kinds of things.

Jeff Dean

Environmental advocates say that changing how much power computers and monitors use in idle mode can cut greenhouse gas emissions without requiring consumers to change their behavior.

Tatiana Schlossberg

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Jonathan Shapiro

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

Ralph Merkle

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

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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

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

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

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