Computer Quotes - Page 15

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a lot of fan mail saying they prefer our films to anything with CGI in it. I'm grateful for that, and we made them on tight budgets, so they were considered B-pictures because of that. And, now here we are, and they've outlasted many so-called A-pictures.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

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

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.