Computer Quotes

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

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

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

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

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

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

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.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

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

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.