Computer Quotes - Page 6

• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Technology, Matter

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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

  Alain Robert

  Believe, People, Classroom

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• They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

  Janet Reno

  Technology, Mass Destruction, May

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• There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

  Aimee Mann

  Music, Divorce, Guy

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• I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiring, Fear, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

  Hiroshi Yamauchi

  Cutting, Epic, Technology

  "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.

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

  Bill McCollum

  Break Up, Demand, Privacy

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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• Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

  Danielle Bunten Berry

  Wish, More Time, Alone Time

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• The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

  Eugene Jarvis

  Games, Play, Use

  "Supercade by Van Burnham" by Fin Fahey, www.newscientist.com. September 22, 2001.

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

  Paul Kantner

  Feds

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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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• That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

  Larry Niven

  Hate, Technology, Thinking

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• 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

  News, Classroom, Good News And Bad News

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• I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Purpose, Use

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Software, Hardware

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• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Water, Fish Tanks

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• The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  Adam Osborne

  Lying, People, Design

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• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simple, Simplicity, Genius

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Successful, Design, Problem

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Internet

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