Top Computer Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Computer quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ted Nelson
Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
- Ted Nelson
Collection: Computer
Image of Ted Nelson
If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
- Ted Nelson
Collection: Computer
Image of Nathan Myhrvold
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
- Nathan Myhrvold
Collection: Computer
Image of Larry Wall
Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
- Larry Wall
Collection: Computer
Image of Stan Kelly-Bootle
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
- Stan Kelly-Bootle
Collection: Computer
Image of Ben Shneiderman
More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.
- Ben Shneiderman
Collection: Computer
Image of Fred Brooks
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
- Fred Brooks
Collection: Computer
Image of Gordon Bell
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
- Gordon Bell
Collection: Computer
Image of Seymour Papert
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
- Seymour Papert
Collection: Computer
Image of Jeff Cesario
I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'.
- Jeff Cesario
Collection: Computer
Image of Stewart Brand
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
- Stewart Brand
Collection: Computer
Image of Roger McGough
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
- Roger McGough
Collection: Computer
Image of Dan Farmer
If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.
- Dan Farmer
Collection: Computer
Image of Clifford Stoll
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
- Clifford Stoll
Collection: Computer
Image of Seymour Cray
Farmers buy a lot of computers.
- Seymour Cray
Collection: Computer
Image of Eugene Wigner
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?
- Eugene Wigner
Collection: Computer
Image of David Gelernter
The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.
- David Gelernter
Collection: Computer
Image of Julie Larson-Green
User interface is customer service for the computer.
- Julie Larson-Green
Collection: Computer
Image of Alison Stewart
The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.
- Alison Stewart
Collection: Computer
Image of Greg Nickels
We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities.
- Greg Nickels
Collection: Computer
Image of Hal Abelson
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.
- Hal Abelson
Collection: Computer
Image of Paul W. K. Rothemund
Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.
- Paul W. K. Rothemund
Collection: Computer
Image of Alistair Cooke
If computers take over, it will serve us right.
- Alistair Cooke
Collection: Computer
Image of Seth Lloyd
Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
- Seth Lloyd
Collection: Computer
Image of Jessica Livingston
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
- Jessica Livingston
Collection: Computer
Image of John Gage
The network is the computer.
- John Gage
Collection: Computer
Image of Nick Bostrom
Are you living in a computer simulation?
- Nick Bostrom
Collection: Computer
Image of Vivek Wadhwa
Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.
- Vivek Wadhwa
Collection: Computer
Image of Gregory Chaitin
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
- Gregory Chaitin
Collection: Computer
Image of Jan Koum
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
- Jan Koum
Collection: Computer
Image of Alexander Waugh
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
- Alexander Waugh
Collection: Computer
Image of Bill Gates
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Computer
Image of Jim Blinn
All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.
- Jim Blinn
Collection: Computer
Image of Martin Gardner
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
- Martin Gardner
Collection: Computer
Image of Douglas Crockford
Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.
- Douglas Crockford
Collection: Computer
Image of Annalena McAfee
I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.
- Annalena McAfee
Collection: Computer
Image of Steve Yegge
If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.
- Steve Yegge
Collection: Computer
Image of Charles Traub
Though the computer can correct anything, a bad image is a bad image.
- Charles Traub
Collection: Computer
Image of Ira Carmen
Computers will be the death of us all.
- Ira Carmen
Collection: Computer
Image of Matt Blaze
Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.
- Matt Blaze
Collection: Computer
Image of Donald Knuth
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
- Donald Knuth
Collection: Computer
Image of Clint Mansell
It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.
- Clint Mansell
Collection: Computer
Image of Jeff Atwood
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.
- Jeff Atwood
Collection: Computer
Image of Zeena Parkins
Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.
- Zeena Parkins
Collection: Computer
Image of Alan Bennett
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
- Alan Bennett
Collection: Computer
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
His computer password is "password.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Computer
Image of Andy Rooney
The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
- Andy Rooney
Collection: Computer
Image of Clay Shirky
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.
- Clay Shirky
Collection: Computer
Image of Steve Wozniak
Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
- Steve Wozniak
Collection: Computer
Image of Ted Nelson
You can and must understand computers now.
- Ted Nelson
Collection: Computer