| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Noam Chomsky | The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. | 101 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. | 101 |
| Ellen Hopkins | For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit. | 101 |
| Elayne Boosler | I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.' | 101 |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. | 101 |
| Nicollette Sheridan | You can't trust the internet. | 101 |
| Taylor Kitsch | Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. | 101 |
| Thabo Mbeki | Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. | 101 |
| Clive Thompson | The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling. | 101 |
| Gary Coleman | You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize. | 101 |
| Thomas Bangalter | Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion. | 101 |
| Walt Mossberg | There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. | 101 |
| Eric Allin Cornell | After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. | 101 |
| Greg Lynn | Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume. | 101 |
| Hod Lipson | We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer. | 101 |
| Seth Lloyd | Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. | 101 |
| Alain Robert | Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. | 101 |
| Brian Kernighan | Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games. | 101 |
| Eugene Jarvis | The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. | 101 |
| George Nethercutt | From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. | 101 |
| Howard Aiken | There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. | 101 |
| Jeanne Marie Laskas | There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. | 101 |
| Ken Olsen | There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. | 101 |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.  | 101 |
| Ted Nelson | 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. | 101 |
| Ann McLane Kuster | Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars. | 101 |
| Clifford Stoll | Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. | 101 |
| Danger Mouse | I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments. | 101 |
| John Maeda | I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. | 101 |
| Paul Vixie | The internet is not for sissies. | 101 |
| Charles Pollock | I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing. | 101 |
| Jeff Hawkins | I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains. | 101 |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. | 101 |
| Sunny Mabrey | I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862. | 101 |
| David Smith | The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans. | 101 |
| Masi Oka | I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. | 101 |
| Dale Dougherty | What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. | 101 |
| Danielle Berry | No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. | 101 |
| Jack Wagner | We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games. | 101 |
| Justin Long | I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. | 101 |
| Jef Raskin | 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. | 101 |
| John Warnock | What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. | 101 |
| Jim Clark | The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. | 101 |
| Marissa Mayer | When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. | 102 |
| Nicholas Negroponte | Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. | 102 |
| Florence Henderson | I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. | 102 |
| Gerald Edelman | The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. | 102 |
| Mary Berry | I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests. | 102 |
| Perry Farrell | I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. | 102 |
| Sherry Turkle | The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. | 102 |
| Wietse Venema | When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. | 102 |
| William Landay | I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. | 102 |
| Bill Budge | It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers. | 102 |
| George Stephen | I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home. | 102 |
| Katherine Parkinson | I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. | 102 |
| Kent Conrad | Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. | 102 |
| Martin Gore | When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song. | 102 |
| Neil Gershenfeld | Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. | 102 |
| Paul Kantner | You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. | 102 |
| Ralph Merkle | 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. | 102 |
| Roger McGuinn | I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. | 102 |
| Scott Michael Foster | I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible. | 102 |
| Adam Osborne | People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. | 102 |
| Ben Parr | Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. | 102 |
| Bill Laswell | Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. | 102 |
| Gillian Gilbert | In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms. | 102 |
| Wolfgang Petersen | Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away. | 102 |
| Aaron Levie | All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices. | 102 |
| Dixie Carter | Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. | 102 |
| Robert Cailliau | The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games. | 102 |
| Bill McCollum | We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. | 102 |
| Conrad Wolfram | Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual. | 102 |
| Lucien Engelen | It's a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google. | 102 |
| Malik Bendjelloul | I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever. | 102 |
| Marcel Dzama | Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings. | 102 |
| Sivamani | Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. | 102 |
| Alessandra Torresani | My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room. | 102 |
| Dee Brown | I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. | 102 |
| Michael Birch | When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game. | 102 |
| Stephen Wolfram | So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. | 102 |
| Steven Levy | There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. | 102 |
| Avi Rubin | People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware. | 102 |
| Douglas Engelbart | The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. | 102 |
| Joseph Kosinski | I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing. | 102 |
| Josh Holloway | I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. | 102 |
| Jef Raskin | Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. | 102 |
| James Hilton | If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. | 102 |
| John Brunner | The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash. | 102 |
| Edsger Dijkstra | Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. | 103 |
| Felix Dennis | Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. | 103 |
| Frank Press | When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. | 103 |
| Steve Wozniak | Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. | 103 |
| Tyler Cowen | The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at. | 103 |
| Christopher Plummer | I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. | 103 |
| Darrell Issa | Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. | 103 |
| Nick Park | 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. | 103 |
| Niklaus Wirth | In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. | 103 |
| Phil Schiller | Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone. | 103 |
| W. Daniel Hillis | People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. | 103 |
| Brian Acton | Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers. | 103 |
| Don Bluth | If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! | 103 |
| Kevin Lynch | A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices. | 103 |
| LeVar Burton | And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time. | 103 |
| Mike Royko | It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. | 103 |
| Sarah Lacy | As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveillance system in our pockets at all times, stories of the law enforcement's unease with that have been popping up in the press. And of course, the ones that become viral videos aren't exactly flattering for law enforcement. | 103 |
| Bob Taft | Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. | 103 |
| Michel Hazanavicius | I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything. | 103 |
| Charles C. Mann | A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. | 103 |
| Jack Kilby | I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. | 103 |
| Miguel de Icaza | Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. | 103 |
| Mordechai Vanunu | We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons. | 103 |
| Robert Moog | 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. | 103 |
| Dave Winer | There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. | 103 |
| Mark Rylance | Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. | 103 |
| Thomas Nagel | Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. | 103 |
| Bob Kahn | For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech. | 103 |
| Dave Parnas | As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. | 103 |
| John Shadegg | From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. | 103 |
| Jefferson Han | As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?' | 103 |
| Joanne Kelly | I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers. | 103 |
| Nicholas Negroponte | Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. | 104 |
| Vikram Patel | Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers. | 104 |
| Clive Thompson | More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. | 104 |
| Emilio Estevez | We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. | 104 |
| Bill Budge | The power of the computer is starting to spread. | 104 |
| Walter F. Mondale | What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? | 104 |
| Adam Osborne | The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all. | 104 |
| Brian Binnie | If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.' | 104 |
| Greg Egan | Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. | 104 |
| Ken Olsen | Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. | 104 |
| Lawrence Kudlow | I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it. | 104 |
| Lennart Nilsson | That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. | 104 |
| Ben Fountain | I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. | 104 |
| John Maeda | Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. | 104 |
| Mitchel Resnick | When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work. | 104 |
| James Fallows | Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. | 104 |
| Rick Boucher | I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. | 104 |
| Jonathan Shapiro | Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! | 104 |
| Alvin Toffler | The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. | 105 |
| Andy Rooney | Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. | 105 |
| Emo Philips | A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. | 105 |
| Robert Orben | To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. | 105 |
| Bruce Schneier | I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. | 105 |
| Henry Mintzberg | So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating? | 105 |
| Magnus Carlsen | I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. | 105 |
| Tracey Ullman | Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? | 105 |
| W. Daniel Hillis | In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers. | 105 |
| Beth Simone Noveck | Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology. | 105 |
| Bill Griffith | I just became one with my browser software. | 105 |
| Mitchell Baker | We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor. | 105 |
| Neil Gershenfeld | Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way. | 105 |
| Tom Golisano | By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers. | 105 |
| Alan Perlis | In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'. | 105 |
| Carrie-Anne Moss | I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. | 105 |
| Eugene Jarvis | I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. | 105 |
| Mikko Hypponen | Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail. | 105 |
| Pat Cadigan | I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want. | 105 |
| Rodney Brooks | In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them. | 105 |
| Stephen Root | People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. | 105 |
| Charles Keating | Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me. | 105 |
| Joshua Cohen | Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate. | 105 |
| Conrad Wolfram | Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense. | 105 |
| Alan Cooper | I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff. | 105 |
| Seymour Cray | I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray. | 105 |
| Mitchell Joachim | I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer. | 105 |
| Mario Gabelli | How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system. | 105 |
| Bill Gates | I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. | 106 |
| Alan Turing | The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. | 106 |
| Bill Dedman | Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. | 106 |
| Edsger Dijkstra | The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. | 106 |
| Linus Torvalds | Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. | 106 |
| Reed Hastings | In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. | 106 |
| Sydney J. Harris | The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. | 106 |
| Tyler Cowen | In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. | 106 |
| Aaron Swartz | I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start. | 106 |
| Bootsy Collins | We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb. | 106 |
| Chris Riddell | As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing. | 106 |
| Craig Bruce | It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. | 106 |
| Milton Glaser | Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. | 106 |
| Raf Simons | Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris. | 106 |
| Sumner Redstone | The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo! | 106 |
| Richard Dooling | Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. | 106 |
| Timothy Murphy | While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed. | 106 |
| Eric Avery | I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. | 106 |
| Patrick Collison | I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers. | 106 |
| Tim Harford | How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. | 106 |
| Charles C. Mann | Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit. | 106 |
| Lene Hau | Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs? | 106 |
| Sam Wyly | Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. | 106 |
| Conrad Wolfram | Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world. | 106 |
| Craig Hatkoff | I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications? | 106 |
| Shai Agassi | You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. | 106 |
| Claude Vorilhon | Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. | 106 |
| Matt Frewer | I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school. | 106 |
| Joshua Michael Stern | Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that. | 106 |
| Chris Hardwick | Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things. | 107 |
| Dave Grohl | Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock. | 107 |
| Issey Miyake | Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. | 107 |
| Norman Ralph Augustine | One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' | 107 |
| Warwick Davis | It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers! | 107 |
| Aaron Koblin | As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming. | 107 |
| Seth Lloyd | Something else has happened with computers. | 107 |
| Dallas Roberts | I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty. | 107 |
| John Hawkes | The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out. | 107 |
| Paul Buchheit | Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation. | 107 |
| Ann McLane Kuster | We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy. | 107 |
| Brenda Laurel | I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful. | 107 |
| Sherman Austin | They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running. | 107 |
| Clint Black | I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on. | 107 |
| Margaret Wertheim | Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. | 107 |
| Jimmi Simpson | I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government. | 107 |
| Jo Ann Davis | Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. | 107 |
| Dave Barry | The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. | 108 |
| Jimmy Carter | Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. | 108 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. | 108 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. | 108 |
| Katherine Jenkins | Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong. | 108 |
| Yael Naim | Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool. | 108 |
| Bill James | Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. | 108 |
| Bruce Schneier | People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. | 108 |
| Damian Marley | I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else. | 108 |
| Tony Visconti | Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. | 108 |
| Gerhard Richter | We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. | 108 |
| Seth Lloyd | What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. | 108 |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | I joined the staff of EMI in Middlesex in 1951, where I worked for a while on radar and guided weapons and later ran a small design laboratory. During this time, I became particularly interested in computers, which were then in their infancy. It was interesting, pioneering work at that time: drums and tape decks had to be designed from scratch. | 108 |
| Jonathan Raymond | Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage. | 108 |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role. | 108 |
| Robert Ludlum | I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility. | 108 |
| Clifford Stoll | Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. | 108 |
| David Arquette | Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me. | 108 |
| Jason Schwartzman | There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them. | 108 |
| Roy Romer | Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. | 108 |
| Joseph Campbell | Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. | 109 |
| John Lasseter | Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. | 109 |
| Frank Tipler | Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul. | 109 |
| Bidzina Ivanishvili | I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them. | 109 |
| Brit Morin | By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer. | 109 |
| Colin Greenwood | The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. | 109 |
| Erik Brynjolfsson | Computers get better faster than anything else ever. | 109 |
| Shelley Hennig | I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers. | 109 |
| Soulja Boy | When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first. | 109 |
| Luis von Ahn | People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! | 109 |
| Thomas Dolby | So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. | 109 |
| Francois-Henri Pinault | I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. | 110 |
| Lou Ferrigno | Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine. | 110 |
| Luis von Ahn | The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game. | 110 |
| Meg Rosoff | I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world. | 110 |
| Ted Nelson | Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. | 110 |
| Robert B. Laughlin | It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister. | 110 |
| Sherman Austin | When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left. | 110 |
| Andy Rooney | Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. | 111 |
| Fareed Zakaria | The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work. | 111 |
| Marc Andreessen | People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. | 111 |
| Ray Kurzweil | I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. | 111 |
| Tim O'Reilly | We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. | 111 |
| Tony Hawk | I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences. | 111 |
| Magnus Carlsen | I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. | 111 |
| Adam Osborne | The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. | 111 |
| Lennart Nilsson | And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. | 111 |
| Luis von Ahn | Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that? | 111 |
| Robert Mankoff | I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. | 111 |
| Dieter Rams | I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. | 112 |
| Neill Blomkamp | I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have. | 112 |
| Steve Wozniak | My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. | 112 |
| Tony Fadell | I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. | 112 |
| Doug Larson | Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. | 112 |
| Edward Tufte | If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. | 112 |
| Carla Bruni | I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong. | 112 |
| Cliff Stearns | I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. | 112 |
| Daniel Greenberg | Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them. | 112 |
| John Maeda | I don't really love computers. | 112 |
| Rony Abovitz | We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers. | 112 |
| Pablo Picasso | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. | 113 |
| Richard P. Feynman | There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! | 113 |
| Tim Burton | In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. | 113 |
| Fatema Mernissi | Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone. | 113 |
| George M. Church | I always loved computers - it's something inside you. | 113 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me. | 113 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. | 113 |
| Scott Weiland | Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. | 113 |
| Bow Wow | I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. | 113 |
| Bre Pettis | My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers. | 113 |
| Richard Dooling | I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers. | 113 |
| Tom Chatfield | If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level. | 113 |
| Allan Savory | Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing. | 113 |
| Catherine Bell | We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know? | 113 |
| Jacques Villeneuve | I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important. | 113 |
| Irwin Winkler | I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers. | 114 |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. | 114 |
| Lech Walesa | I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me! | 114 |
| Larry Page | I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly. | 114 |
| Gary Paulsen | I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language. | 114 |
| Philip Emeagwali | Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. | 114 |
| John Roberts | I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school. | 114 |
| Lynn Abbey | When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. | 114 |
| Marcia Gay Harden | We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones. | 114 |
| Mark Skousen | Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box. | 114 |
| Ray Comfort | In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones. | 114 |
| Ted Nelson | They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. | 114 |
| Donald Knuth | People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. | 115 |
| Eric Schmidt | Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. | 115 |
| Marc Andreessen | Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. | 115 |
| Eddie Trunk | I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that. | 115 |
| James Comey | The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information. | 115 |
| Aaron Patzer | When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out. | 115 |
| Tim Harford | Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. | 115 |
| Dennis Ritchie | My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. | 116 |
| Steve Wozniak | 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. And I did all this myself. | 116 |
| Tyler Cowen | We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one. | 116 |
| Jean Rostand | Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. | 116 |
| Gary Wolf | As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. | 116 |
| Tre Cool | I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump. | 116 |
| Brian Kernighan | Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate. | 116 |
| Alison Owen | Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience. | 116 |
| Roberta Williams | Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. | 116 |
| James Iha | Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. | 116 |
| Jerry Brown | I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. | 116 |
| Herbert A. Simon | When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology. | 117 |
| Nicholas Negroponte | We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. | 117 |
| Ray Kurzweil | Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. | 117 |
| Thom Yorke | I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. | 117 |
| Harold Ford, Jr. | I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units. | 117 |
| Sherry Turkle | I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. | 117 |
| Terrance Hayes | We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand. | 117 |
| Calvin Harris | Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. | 117 |
| Graham Hawkes | I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good. | 117 |
| Ronald Kessler | Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice. | 117 |
| Brian Kernighan | It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. | 117 |
| Mike Davidson | If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools. | 117 |
| Rodney Brooks | Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that. | 117 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. | 118 |
| Craig Bruce | Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat. | 118 |
| Wesley Morris | Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design. | 118 |
| Anna Chlumsky | Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!' | 118 |
| Jon Oringer | In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it. | 118 |
| Steve Jobs | Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. | 119 |
| Isaac Asimov | Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. | 119 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. | 119 |
| Herbert A. Simon | I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. | 119 |
| Larry Ellison | Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. | 119 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. | 119 |
| Aaron Koblin | I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that. | 119 |
| Eric Bristow | I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered. | 119 |
| Jeff Lemire | I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children. | 119 |
| Mackenzie Davis | Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives. | 119 |
| Adam Brody | Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. | 119 |
| Jack Kilby | Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. | 119 |
| Joe Sakic | My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers. | 119 |
| Erykah Badu | Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. | 120 |
| Harbhajan Singh | I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day. | 120 |
| Letitia Baldrige | At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations. | 120 |
| Marjane Satrapi | I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email. | 120 |
| Philip Emeagwali | Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. | 120 |
| Whitfield Diffie | I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. | 120 |
| Sugata Mitra | I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations. | 120 |
| Jon Huntsman, Sr. | I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts. | 120 |
| Brian Eno | Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised. | 121 |
| Ian MacKaye | I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made. | 121 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. | 121 |
| Bill Budge | 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. | 121 |
| Burt Rutan | We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there. | 121 |
| Mike Shinoda | Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art. | 121 |
| Miriam Defensor-Santiago | In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture. | 121 |
| Ralph Merkle | Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there. | 121 |
| Ali Shaheed Muhammad | I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians. | 121 |
| Marc Andreessen | In short, software is eating the world. | 122 |
| Ray Kurzweil | By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. | 122 |
| Kirsty Gallacher | The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. | 122 |
| Leslie Jones | I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave. | 122 |
| Steve Case | One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. | 122 |
| Major Owens | The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. | 122 |
| Mikko Hypponen | There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well. | 122 |
| Jojo Moyes | I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary. | 122 |
| Jon Postel | One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. | 122 |
| Steve Jobs | The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. | 123 |
| Isaac Asimov | I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. | 123 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. | 123 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. | 123 |
| Jeffrey Gitomer | I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV. | 123 |
| John Sculley | When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer. | 123 |
| James Comey | Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us. | 123 |
| Mona Simpson | I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. | 123 |
| Steve Case | One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them. | 123 |
| John F. Kennedy | Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. | 124 |
| Peter Drucker | The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. | 124 |
| George M. Church | We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too. | 124 |
| Lech Walesa | You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? | 124 |
| Ray Kurzweil | If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning. | 124 |
| Tyler Cowen | I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free. | 124 |
| Jill Lepore | Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. | 124 |
| Alan Perlis | If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. | 124 |
| Bradley Wiggins | I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone. | 125 |
| George M. Church | Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science. | 125 |
| Jack White | That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments. | 125 |
| John Madden | When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers. | 125 |
| Lynn Jurich | We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable. | 125 |
| Rick Perlstein | Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. | 125 |
| Scott Weiland | A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. | 125 |
| Charles Bass | China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. | 125 |
| Nick Jonas | I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two! | 126 |
| Jared Leto | I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers. | 126 |
| Rhianna Pratchett | Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing. | 126 |
| Berkeley Breathed | It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one. | 201 |
| Pat Metheny | I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny. | 201 |
| Ray Kurzweil | By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter. | 201 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. | 201 |
| Tommy Lee | I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. | 201 |
| J. G. Ballard | Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. | 201 |
| Jack Dangermond | I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape. | 201 |
| David Lagercrantz | The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us. | 201 |
| Roy H. Williams | It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them. | 202 |
| Kevin Kelly | The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. | 202 |
| Rebecca Traister | I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors. | 202 |
| Adora Svitak | I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries. | 202 |
| Peter Drucker | Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' | 203 |
| Howard Rheingold | Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. | 203 |
| Lenny Kravitz | We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this. | 203 |
| Stephen Hawking | There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. | 204 |
| Jack Welch | I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. | 204 |
| Bikram Choudhury | I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! | 204 |
| Marc Andreessen | Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.' | 204 |
| Jack Dangermond | GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software. | 204 |
| Jack Vance | But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. | 204 |
| Mary Ellen Mark | Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. | 204 |
| Jidenna | My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle. | 204 |
| Prince | Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. | 205 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them. | 205 |
| Eric Schmidt | I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces. | 205 |
| Marc Andreessen | The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. | 205 |
| Tony Fadell | Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. | 205 |
| Tyler Cowen | There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population. | 205 |
| Damon Galgut | Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland. | 205 |
| Garrett Hedlund | I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email. | 205 |
| Stacey D'Erasmo | There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less. | 205 |
| Steve Jobs | Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. | 206 |
| Chuck D | You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. | 206 |
| Aaron Swartz | Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. | 206 |
| Tristram Stuart | The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors. | 206 |
| Matthew McConaughey | I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island. | 207 |
| Michio Kaku | I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS. | 207 |
| Richard Stallman | A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets. | 207 |
| Alex Pareene | Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. | 207 |
| Jaron Lanier | Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. | 207 |
| James Gleick | Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers. | 207 |
| Elizabeth McCracken | For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers. | 208 |
| Mitch Kapor | Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. | 208 |
| John Battelle | In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators. | 208 |
| Gregory Benford | Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. | 209 |
| Steve Coogan | I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration. | 209 |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain. | 209 |
| Lisa Loeb | When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew. | 209 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt. | 210 |
| Marc Andreessen | Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. | 210 |
| Ahmed Zewail | I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort. | 210 |
| Tom Scholz | I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. | 210 |
| Margaret Heffernan | Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful. | 211 |
| Scott Turow | I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way. | 211 |
| Debbie Harry | But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out. | 212 |
| L'Wren Scott | Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them. | 212 |
| Steve Wozniak | My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever. | 212 |
| Elizabeth Debicki | Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day. | 212 |
| Andrew Rosenthal | When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc - by Telex - from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train. | 212 |
| E. L. Doctorow | I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself. | 213 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade. | 213 |
| Paul Davies | Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. | 213 |
| Peter Drucker | The computer is a moron. | 214 |
| Guy Laliberte | I always have traveled with a camera throughout my life, but I always had my old 35mm film camera. When I was training to go into space, the only equipment there was a digital camera. I went through a fast-track class on Earth. It actually was fun, though I'm basically a dinosaur with computers. | 214 |
| Nicolas Cage | I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. | 214 |
| Steve Wozniak | My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. | 214 |
| Marc Jacobs | I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it. | 214 |
| David Hockney | I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. | 215 |
| Richard Stallman | When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. | 215 |
| Paul Di Filippo | It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds. | 215 |
| Andrew Rosenthal | I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of. | 215 |
| Anthony Browne | I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils. | 216 |
| Bill Maris | As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications. | 216 |
| Sundar Pichai | There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them. | 216 |
| Felix Dennis | There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands. | 219 |
| Tyler Cowen | When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply. | 219 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. | 220 |
| Eric Schmidt | People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. | 221 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. | 221 |
| Busy Philipps | I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore. | 221 |
| David Mamet | I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. | 222 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. | 222 |
| Mitch Kapor | Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. | 222 |
| Eric Schmidt | People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. | 223 |
| William Shatner | Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. | 223 |
| James Surowiecki | If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars. | 223 |
| Steve Wozniak | At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. | 224 |
| Howard Rheingold | Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right. | 225 |
| Mickey Rourke | Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down. | 225 |
| Marc Andreessen | One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time. | 226 |
| Stephen Hawking | I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. | 301 |
| Kevin Mitnick | Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically. | 301 |
| Elmore Leonard | I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. | 301 |
| Steve Jobs | This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. | 302 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human. | 302 |
| Buzz Aldrin | Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work. | 302 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. | 302 |
| Kevin Mitnick | Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. | 303 |
| Kate Winslet | I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers. | 303 |
| Satya Nadella | With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time. | 304 |
| Matt Mullenweg | Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. | 304 |
| Ryan Holmes | As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. | 304 |
| Dave Grohl | 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. | 305 |
| Jenny Lewis | I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs. | 305 |
| Mother Angelica | We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally. | 306 |
| Louis C. K. | I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. | 307 |
| Jeff Bezos | I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. | 307 |
| James Dyson | Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. | 307 |
| Stephen Hawking | There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. | 308 |
| Satya Nadella | India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone. | 308 |
| Viggo Mortensen | Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do. | 308 |
| Willie Nelson | All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it. | 309 |
| Dylan Lauren | Computers intimidate me. | 309 |
| Mariella Frostrup | I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them. | 310 |
| Barton Gellman | Most computers today have built in backup software. | 311 |
| Martin Rees | Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have. | 311 |
| John Niven | I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.' | 312 |
| Britney Spears | Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music. | 314 |
| Jackie Chan | Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. | 314 |
| Peter Jackson | If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. | 314 |
| Barton Gellman | Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions. | 315 |
| Adam Carolla | I don't know anything about computers. | 315 |
| Will Self | I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book. | 316 |
| Craig Venter | 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. | 317 |
| Mitch Kapor | Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. | 317 |
| Steve Jobs | I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. | 319 |
| Jonathan Ive | The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered. | 319 |
| Trent Reznor | I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision. | 319 |
| Annalee Newitz | Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers. | 319 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on. | 320 |
| Jimmy Fallon | My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad. | 320 |
| David Lynch | More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't. | 321 |
| Douglas Adams | Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use. | 323 |
| Jason Calacanis | The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially. | 326 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data. | 401 |
| Richard P. Feynman | Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things. | 402 |
| Brian Eno | The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work. | 402 |
| Douglas Adams | Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication. | 403 |
| Terry Teachout | In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.' | 403 |
| Vint Cerf | I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. | 403 |
| Dave Barry | I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. | 404 |
| Seth Shostak | By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are? | 404 |
| William Gibson | I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them. | 404 |
| Marvin Ammori | In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging. | 405 |
| Marc Andreessen | Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. | 406 |
| Wendy Kopp | The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. | 406 |
| Alan Alda | I fix my grandchildren's computers. | 407 |
| Mitch Kapor | I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. | 410 |
| Kevin Mitnick | It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. | 411 |
| Cary Fukunaga | I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that. | 411 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives. | 411 |
| Stephen Hawking | I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. | 413 |
| Katie Taylor | People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers. | 413 |
| Martin Rees | Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become. | 413 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. | 414 |
| Joseph B. Wirthlin | Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries. | 414 |
| Michio Kaku | If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers. | 414 |
| John Lasseter | Pixar is not about computers, it's about people. | 416 |
| Ruth Reichl | The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. | 416 |
| Brian Eno | When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output. | 419 |
| Will Self | The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers. | 419 |
| Dalai Lama | Computers make me totally blank out. | 420 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available. | 420 |
| Bill Gates | Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. | 424 |
| Richard Dawkins | The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world. | 424 |
| Kevin Mitnick | I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator. | 425 |
| Alan Dershowitz | Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently. | 425 |
| Peter Thiel | Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. | 425 |
| Peter Thiel | Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. | 501 |
| Steve Jobs | We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. | 503 |
| Richard Dawkins | Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. | 506 |
| Steve Jobs | What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done. | 507 |
| Vint Cerf | When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash. | 508 |
| Alex Berenson | Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines. | 512 |
| Sebastian Thrun | Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. | 514 |
| Kevin Mitnick | I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago. | 515 |
| Mo Ibrahim | Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. | 517 |
| Barton Gellman | I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. | 518 |
| Peter Diamandis | With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. | 518 |
| Barton Gellman | Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago. | 522 |
| Charles Duhigg | Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened. | 523 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. | 601 |
| Peter Diamandis | The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. | 602 |
| Penn Jillette | My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. | 607 |
| Peter Diamandis | One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. | 612 |
| Bill Cosby | With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers. | 625 |
| Jo Brand | I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well. | 703 |
| Seth Shostak | Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind. | 703 |
| Zooey Deschanel | I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. | 703 |
| Penn Jillette | Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything. | 706 |
| Buzz Aldrin | Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers. | 711 |
| Martin Freeman | I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that. | 711 |
| Stephen Hawking | Computers double their performance every month. | 806 |
| Brian Eno | If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche. | 812 |
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