Quotes About Technology

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

I'm not very computer savvy.

I am aware that a computer can't create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

His computer password is "password.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.