Computers Quotes
My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.
Brianna Wu
American video game developer
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Bill James
American Writer
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
Frank Peretti
Author
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.
Jimmi Simpson
American actor
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.
Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan writer
It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist
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.
Peter Thiel
Entrepreneur
The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at home, an IBM compatible computer, and then I started to sell computers, and when I sold a computer to a company called Ligo I think, and they were selling systems which became blockbuster.
Peter Jones
British entrepreneur
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?
Catherine Bell
British-American actress
I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
Kevin Mitnick
American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
Martin Rees
Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
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.
Richard Dooling
American novelist
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Nicholas Negroponte
American architect
In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.
Louis B. Rosenberg
American engineer
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
American human–computer interface
I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.
Mary Berry
Food journalist
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.
Reed Hastings
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Netfli
What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody.
Oren Etzioni
Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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.
Lynn Jurich
American businesswoman
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