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Quotes About Innovation

The Internet? We are not interested in it
~ Bill Gates
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
~ Paul Kantner
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
~ Christopher Plummer
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
~ Jon Postel
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
~ Stephen Hawking
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
~ Bill Gates
Farmers buy a lot of computers.
~ Seymour Cray
The network is the computer.
~ John Gage
Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
~ Steve Wozniak
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
~ David Tudor
I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated.
~ Brian Eno
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
~ Charles Petzold
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
~ Theo de Raadt
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
~ Zaha Hadid
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
~ Jef Raskin
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
~ Bill Gates
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
~ Larry Wall
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
~ Howard Rheingold
The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
~ Paul Halmos
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
~ Alan Perlis
In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before
~ Andy Hertzfeld
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
~ Annie Leibovitz
If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.
~ Aphex Twin