Computer Quotes
I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.
If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.
The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.
I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
