266 Quotes Regarding Computers


Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
Kevin Mitnick

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
Tim O'Reilly

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Linus Torvalds

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Robert Moog

The power of the computer is starting to spread.
Bill Budge

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
Niklas Zennstrom

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Alan Perlis

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Ralph Merkle

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Steve Wozniak

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

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
Edward Tufte

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

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti

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

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
Nick Park

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan Perlis

I just became one with my browser software.
Bill Griffith