Computers Quotes

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Douglas Engelbart

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Debbie Harry

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 ...

Darrell Issa

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.

Donald Knuth

Computers make me totally blank out.

Dalai Lama

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.

David Lynch

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...

David Mamet

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

Dallas Roberts

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

Dieter Rams

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.

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.

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 f...

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.

Douglas Rushkoff

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

David Smith

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

Dave Winer

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

Erik Brynjolfsson

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Eric Allin Cornell

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

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 discipl...

E. L. Doctorow

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Eugene Jarvis