Memorable Computer Quotes

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke
"The computer does not provide simple answers. It asks questions and generates confusion."
Clifford Stoll
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein
"Our technology forces us to live mythically."
Marshall McLuhan
"The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable."
Blake Ross
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right."
Henry Ford
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
John Lasseter
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
Douglas Adams
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
Godfrey Reggio
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."
Steve Jobs
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way."
Grace Hopper
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
Albert Einstein
"Computers are like a bicycle for our minds."
Steve Jobs
"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."
Steve Jobs
"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
Steve Jobs
"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name."
Guido van Rossum
"Computers are like humans. We screw up all the time."
Linus Torvalds
"The computer does not create meanings, it allows us to create meanings."
Sherry Turkle
"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."
Ted Nelson
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation."
Leo Cherne
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
Steve Ballmer
"The most important thing is to learn how to operate a computer... Once you know how to turn it on, you're GOLDEN."
Dave Barry
"Computers are like air conditioning – they stop working properly if you open Windows."
Adam Heath Avitable
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a bit."
Porterfield
"The nice thing about a computer is that it is very forgiving. You can try things and if they don’t work, you can try them again."
Steve Jobs
"You could think of communication in a very different way: you could think of people and computers as working together around a 'campfire.', "
Jaron Lanier
"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."
Jamais Cascio
"So much technology, so little talent."
Vernor Vinge
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
Bill Gates
"When solved, technology gets boring."
Robert X. Cringely
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
William James
"You don't have to be a computer scientist to use a computer. You need only to know how to point and click."
Steve Jobs
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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
"To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love computers, it's just the beginning."
Unknown
"No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it."
Charles Schulz
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
Douglas Engelbart
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
Bill Gates
"The computer does not impose constraints, it only reflects and implements the constraints of the design."
Alan Perlis
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."
Unknown
"The day I made that first computer working, where it actually computed numbers, was an amazing experience. I went home that night and thought, well, the world is going to change."
Steve Wozniak
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
Robert X. Cringely
"The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do rather than what you thought you told it to do."
Andrew Singer
"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."
Joseph Weizenbaum
"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
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
Dan Rather
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive."
Stephen Hawking
"The computer does not improve student outcomes when used in isolation or without training and curriculum support."
Randi Weingarten
"The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. The programmer is very slow, inaccurate, and brilliant."
Donald Knuth
"The computer is a remarkable tool serving the inventions of the mind."
James Burke
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso
"Computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. And by 'they,' I mean 'computers.' I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us."
Dave Barry
"The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity. The elegance of the computer scientist resembles the feeling of a pianist who sits down at a piano, places his hands on the keyboard, and produces sound from silence."
Michael A. Jackson
"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them."
Mr. Spock
"The computer is a moron."
Peter Drucker
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
John C. Dvorak
"The great myth is the computer is first and foremost an information storage, retrieval, and processing machine."
Ted Nelson
"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
Jeff Pesis
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing."
Emo Philips
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."
Rob Pike
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen
"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before."
Bill Gates
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
Paul Ehrlich
"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
"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
Daniel Keys Moran
"Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are."
Anonymous
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
Bill Gates
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
Joseph Campbell
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."
Steve Jobs
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
Sydney J. Harris
"The computer does not improve patient care - in fact, if not used appropriately it could do harm."
Leah Binder
"The computer in a digital network of computers would change the character of communication."
Marshall McLuhan
"Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns."
Mitch Ratcliffe
"Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living."
Nicholas Negroponte
"The difference between a computer and a human being is similar to the difference between an abacus and a calculus student."
Steve Jobs
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
Alan Turing
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Steve Wozniak
"Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork."
Sam Ewing
"The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant."
Anonymous
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."
Eric S. Raymond
"The great thing about computer science is that you’re always working on someone else’s problem."
Eliot Cohen
"The computer does not save you from your mistakes. It only amplifies them."
Diane L. Moore
"I think the computer industry is the greatest thing that’s happened to humanity since the Renaissance."
Tom Peters
"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
Nicholas Negroponte
"If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it."
Linus Torvalds
"Everyone should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think."
Steve Jobs
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"
Grace Hopper
"A computer is a man-made device that can be programmed to be a better human than a human."
Harlan Ellison
"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users': narcotics and software."
Edward Tufte
"The computer is a tool. It is a very powerful tool, but it's just a tool."
Bjarne Stroustrup
"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."
Anonymous
"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple."
Grady Booch
"The real world is not a flat world. The world is three-dimensional, and technology must reflect that."
Eli Noam
"We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution."
Scott Cook
"It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people."
Steve Jobs
"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Matt Mullenweg
"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
Theodore von Kármán
"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate, to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."
Michael Dell
"The future of computing is in the hands of the programmers."
Nancy T. Gage
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