Computer Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in "The Daily News", August 4, 1994.

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• 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

  Science, Talking, Together

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• Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

  Linus Torvalds

  Economy, Worst, Software

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• I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

  Steve Wozniak

  Thinking, Typewriters, Games

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• 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

  Patience, Years, Age

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• The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

  Henry Petroski

  Technology, Achievement, Gains

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• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Adventure, Games

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• In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

  John C. Dvorak

  Fun, Science, Technology

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• Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

  Walt Mossberg

  Real, Book, Remember You

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

  Issey Miyake

  Technology, Hands, Trying

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• 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.

  Nick Park

  World, Littles, Tiny

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• I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Two, Design, Brain

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

  Eugene Jarvis

  Teenager, Impulse, Megalomaniacs

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• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Surprise, Interest

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• No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

  Richard Perle

  Airplane, Should Have, Soldier

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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• Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

  Alan Perlis

  Computer Science, Embarrassed

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

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• Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Car, Able, Hackers

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.196, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Dirty, Mean, Years

  "Introducing a course on calculi" by Edsger Dijkstra, August 30, 1995.

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• People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Wall, Reality

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• Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

  Carrie Underwood

  Memories, Holding On, Enough

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• I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

  Christian Slater

  Fun, Thinking, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

  Michael Biehn

  Website, Knows

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• I just became one with my browser software.

  Bill Griffith

  Software, Browsers

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• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

  Heaven, Software, Hardware

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• If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

  Edward Tufte

  Power Of Love, Overhead, Powerpoint

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