Computer Quotes

"I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home." George Stephen

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." Isaac Asimov

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

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand." Issey Miyake

"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." Andy Rooney

"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 Gerstner

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Edsger Dijkstra

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

"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." Tim Berners-Lee

"Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options." Nathan Myhrvold

"I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer." Camille Paglia

"One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens." Joshua Foer

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

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living." Nicholas Negroponte

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s." Clifford Stoll

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso

"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs." Seth Lloyd

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

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you." Daniel J. Boorstin/h4>

"I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day." Dan Brown

"There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well." Matt Groening

"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?" James Hillman

"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn." David Wilkerson

"I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect." Joss Whedon

"I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited." Russell Means

"When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place." Chuck Palahniuk

"In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing." Dave Grohl

"When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place." Chuck Palahniuk

"I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited." Russell Means

"I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect." Joss Whedon