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Quotes About Computers

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
~ John Brunner
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
~ John Hawkes
He didn't just know there would be personal computers. He knew they would crash, that the people who came to fix them would charge heavily by the hour, and be annoying, and no good, and in the end would just tell you to buy a new and more expensive machine –
~ Philip K. Dick
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.... I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I'm comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind.
~ David Sedaris
Apple is going on the path to control computer use.
~ Peter Sunde
There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
~ Howard Aiken
Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.
~ Howard Fast
He returned the scanned cartoon, already worming its way through the Armitage-Weir computer system toward the laser printers of tomorrow's newsstands. "There you go, cizzen. Many thankings.
~ Unknown
Modern policing fell into that trap, heading straight for technology – computers and CCTV – to replace old skills and the occasional inspired guess or piece of intuition.
~ Ian Rankin
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
~ Colin Greenwood
Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.
~ Craig Bruce
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
~ Philip Emeagwali
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
~ Barton Gellman
I avoided the computer generation for a very long time.
~ Aesop Rock
I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.
~ Thomas Middleditch
For me, growing up coding and computers and video games wasn't something that was cool, but it was something that I was always passionate about. I never let the fact that that wasn't something that was cool take me away from it.
~ iJustine
I actually did not touch any type of computer until I came to America. I knew computers existed, yes, but I didn't have access to them. In the Philippines, I did have video games.
~ Bretman Rock
I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
~ Harbhajan Singh
The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
~ Matthew Heineman
It's not a fantasy to explore this question about making computers that are much, much, more powerful than the kind that we have sitting around now -- in which a grain of salt has all the computational powers of all the computers in the world.
~ Unknown
Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
~ Unknown
Her mom could barely turn on her laptop without getting six viruses or wiring half her retirement money to a Nigerian prince
~ Jill Shalvis
A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass. Why would your hard drive be in my ass? I said.
~ Jim Butcher
Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.
~ Ann McLane Kuster