Computer Quotes - Page 11

I don't know anything about computers.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.

Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.