Computer Quotes - Page 31

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.