Computers Quotes

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

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

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.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

I just became one with my browser software.

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

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

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.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

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

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. A…

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

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

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

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.

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

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.