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Computers Quotes

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

– Ray Kurzweil

I start every book with something that outrages me. I’m outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

– Robert Ludlum

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

– Richard Dawkins

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

– Sebastian Thrun

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

– Satya Nadella

In the future, I’m sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

– Rodney Brooks

I got into computers back in the early ’80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-’80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early ’90s.

– Roger McGuinn

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

– Richard P. Feynman

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

– Sydney J. Harris

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren’t that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

– Steve Case

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump.

– Tre Cool

They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

– Sherman Austin

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn’t want anything to do with them. I said, ‘Well, why do I need them? I write letters.’ Which I still do.

– Viggo Mortensen

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I’m a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

– Sherry Turkle

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

– Stephen Hawking

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

– Seth Lloyd

In almost every technology area that we’re ahead in, we’re ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

– W. Daniel Hillis

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

– Walter F. Mondale

We’re seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that’s quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance – using the Internet, using computers – to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

– Tyler Cowen

Something else has happened with computers.

– Seth Lloyd

I’ve always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I’m in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

– Trent Reznor

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don’t want to spend money on orchestra.

– Sivamani

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I’m sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. ‘Do you have an outhouse?’ ‘Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?’ They think all Southerners don’t have computers and TV sets and that we’re all still living in 1862.

– Sunny Mabrey

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

– Whitfield Diffie

I remember having computers at my parents’ house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

– Scott Michael Foster

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It’s made everyone overly opinionated.

– Scott Weiland

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

– Tommy Lee

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask – when will we get a road to our village.

– Thabo Mbeki

We can’t really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

– Terrance Hayes

I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.

– Steve Coogan

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