Computers Quotes

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

Dave Winer

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas J. Watson

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

Eugene Jarvis

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Vinton Cerf

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Charles Keating

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

Adlai Stevenson

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

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

Jon Postel

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

James Fallows

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

Alan Perlis

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Darrell Issa

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Bruce Schneier

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Peter Drucker

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Herbert Simon

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

Taylor Kitsch

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

Edsger Dijkstra

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Nicholas Negroponte

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso