266 Quotes Regarding Computers


Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Ray Kurzweil

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
Christopher Plummer

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
Jef Raskin

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
John Warnock

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
Bill McCollum

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
Ken Olsen

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
Florence Henderson

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart

The internet is not for sissies.
Paul Vixie

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
James Hilton

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
Dee Brown

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Dale Dougherty

Computers make me totally blank out.
Dalai Lama

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
Steve Jobs

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg