Computer Quotes

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

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.

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?

To iterate is human, to recurse divine.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

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

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

Always trust computer games.

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

I look like a geeky hacker but I don’t know anything about computers.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.