Computer Quotes - Page 5

• I don't know anything about computers.

  Adam Carolla

  Knows

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• Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Sex, Reading, Amusing

  "The Odyssey File". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1984.

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• The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

  Brian Eno

  Hands, Ideas, Decision

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• My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

  Emo Philips

  Witty, Humor, Kickboxing

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

  Florence Henderson

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

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• It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Black And White, Fascinated, White

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

  Brian Kernighan

  Technology, Essence, Simplicity

  Brian W. Kernighan (1981). “Software Tools in Pascal”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

  Tony Visconti

  Tape, Classroom, Recorders

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

  David Parnas

  Real, Learning, Insomnia

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• If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Ends, Resources, Ifs

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• The internet is not for sissies.

  Paul Vixie

  Internet, Sissy

  ba.internet forum, groups.google.com. September 26, 1994.

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• A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

  Jef Raskin

  Waste

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

  Roberta Williams

  Women, Want, Today

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• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

  Scott Adams

  Technology, Done, Condescension And

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• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Book, Getting High, Clubs

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• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, America, Firefighter

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• I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

  A. N. Wilson

  Fake People, Teacher, Laptops

  1999 In the Observer, 21Mar.

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• What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Games, Play

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• The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Work

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Technology, Doubt

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• They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

  Janet Reno

  Technology, Mass Destruction, May

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• There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

  Aimee Mann

  Music, Divorce, Guy

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