Computers Quotes

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. We can someday replicate that on a machine. Earthly life is carbon based and computers are

Bill Gates

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare

Lane Olinghouse

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up

James Magary

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable

Leslie Lamport

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind

Joseph Weizenbaum

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.

Jef Raskin

On two occasions I have been asked,\\\"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?\\\" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

If there’s one thing that computers do well, it’s to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed.

Peter Coffee

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

Nicholas Negroponte

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips