Computer Quotes - Page 6

• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Technology, Matter

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

  Alain Robert

  Believe, People, Classroom

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• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  Walter F. Mondale

  Children, Kids, Want

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• I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

  Douglas Adams

  Apples, Might, Century

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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiring, Fear, Humorous

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

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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• We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

  Bill McCollum

  Break Up, Demand, Privacy

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Library

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• You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

  Paul Kantner

  Feds

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• The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Games, Play, Use

  "Supercade by Van Burnham" by Fin Fahey, www.newscientist.com. September 22, 2001.

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• Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

  Danielle Bunten Berry

  Wish, More Time, Alone Time

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

  Larry Niven

  Hate, Technology, Thinking

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• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  Ted Nelson

  News, Classroom, Good News And Bad News

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• I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Purpose, Use

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• The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  Adam Osborne

  Lying, People, Design

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Software, Hardware

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• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Water, Fish Tanks

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• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Money, Technology, Safety

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

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• The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Real, Challenges, Acting

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