Computer Quotes - Page 7

• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Bills, Pope

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• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

  Bill Budge

  Years, Apples, Income

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

  Christopher Plummer

  Use, Quills, Old Fashioned

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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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• 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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• 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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• My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

  Emo Philips

  Witty, Humor, Kickboxing

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• 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

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

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• The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

  Nathaniel Borenstein

  Humorous, Learning, Agreement

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• It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Black And White, Fascinated, White

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• I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Ebay, Europe, Know How

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

  Alan Perlis

  Japan, Speak English, Made

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Migration, Stuff

  Heavy Metal Interview, April 1982.

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• There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Disease, Serious

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.241, Princeton University Press

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• One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

  Frank Herbert

  Home, Understanding, Revolution

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Television

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• 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

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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

  Linus Torvalds

  Economy, Worst, Software

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• I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

  Steve Wozniak

  Thinking, Typewriters, Games

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• A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

  David Wilkerson

  Patience, Years, Age

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• The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

  Henry Petroski

  Technology, Achievement, Gains

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• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Adventure, Games

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