Computer Quotes

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

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

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

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

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.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

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

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

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.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

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.

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.

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