388 Computers Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. Douglas Rushkoff

Great Job Google Become Software Great Job Web Daunting Could Lifestyle Hacking Computers Devices Advertising Brand Did Then Create Search Even Apple Applications Hardware

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

Our Tricky Ability Recover Computers Allowing Biases Brains Just Themselves Organs Eventually Adapt Adaptable

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to. Douglas Rushkoff

Time You Digital Every Universe Bend Software Unlike Rules Backward Follow Computers Allowed Over Piece Well Microsoft Worked Create Reason Even Code Why Apple Compatible Hardware

Computers intimidate me. Dylan Lauren

Me Intimidate Computers

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 discipline myself. E. L. Doctorow

Myself Me Discipline Thought Black Easy Stay Computers Learned Because Revise Up Same Orange Same Page Screen While Little Really Page Cool Billy Letters Actually Started

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues. Edwin Catmull

Attitude Technology Business Respect Car Farm Think Backgrounds Out Computers Leaders Leads Industries Issues Lot Managers Them Business Leaders Who Many Even Including Technical Need Core

When I first started running there were no computers. There was no such thing as a laptop. Edwin Moses

First Running Computers Were Laptop Thing Started

Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. Ellen Ullman

World Closed Software Ran System Only Computer Computers Computing Written Environments Operating Operating System Up Dominated Controlled Chips User Early

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. Elmore Leonard

You Hate Too Could Computer Write Never Computers Like Sound Doing Dull Anything Anywhere Use Laptop

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet. Ernest Cline

Home Science World Internet Before Other Birth Virtual Typewriter William Gibson Online Writers Computers Had Written Like Wrote Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Existed Snow Modern Fiction Fiction Writers Crash Really Shoulders Standing Who Even Early Imagined

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Erykah Badu

Government Man Business Nothing Computers Want

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.' Faith Salie

Age Word Our Fact Computers Drives Put Takes Stuff Longer Name Like Because Scientifically Scientists Discovered Lot Brains Trying Hold Us Act Hard Fuller Recall

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

Women Equality Made Men Islam Monopoly Everyone Define Say Extremist Extremists Religious Insisted Computers Between Armed Identity Without Educated Cultural Women Are Texts Denying Inferior Being Them Al Al Jazeera Interpret Defeated

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face. Fei-Fei Li

Alone Science Face Computer Science Defined Recognize Photographs Detect Able Something Computer Student Computers Sharp Edges Loosely Were Graduate Graduate Student Human Human Face Barely Early

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. Felix Dennis

Time People Few Once Hundreds Emails Paper Computers Until Make Documents Sheet Errors Duplicated Get Managers Endlessly Swamped Flawless Each Now Wasteful Copies

I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever. Flying Lotus

Whatever Teenager Computers Stuff Built

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. Frank Press

First Tried Computers Come Equipment Started

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul. Frank Tipler

Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis. Gary Bettman

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