Computer Technology Quotes

• Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

  Steven Levy

  Artist, Technology, Computer

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• The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

  Sydney Brenner

  Technology, Computer, Modern

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• What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Memorable, Technology

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

  Lou Gerstner

  Inspirational, Dream, Compassion

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• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Dog, Business, Future

  "At Lunch, Donald Trump Gives Critics Hope" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. November 22, 2016.

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• A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Work, Technology, Mind

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• Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  Andy Rooney

  Witty, Work, Technology

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Science, Technology

  'Contingencies of Reinforcement' (1969) ch. 9

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• Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

  Doug Larson

  Education, Dog, Home

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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Philosophical, Technology

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Humanity, Reason

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• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, Technology

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

  Ken Olsen

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  "The 10 Stupidest Things Ever Said By Tech's Smartest People" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Teacher

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Viruses, Computer, Funny Computer

  "The Daily News" Newspaper, August 4, 1994.

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• I think computer viruses should count as life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Viruses, Aliens

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, August 4, 1994.

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• Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Computer, Classroom

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Technology, Digital Revolution

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• Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, America, Political

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Airplane, Technology, Men

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cheer, Pregnancy, Technology

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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