Computer Quotes

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan Perlis

Made, English, Japan

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.
Kirk Douglas

Wife, Play, Gave

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Knuth

Art, Science, Everything

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
Donald Knuth

Change, Attitude, Human

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle

Nature, Nothing, Place

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Bill Griffith

Life, Technology, Character

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
Roberta Williams

Computers, Friendly, Thought

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.
Michael Nutter

Future, Around, Knowing

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.
Chris O'Donnell

Family, Amazing, Wife

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
Chris O'Donnell

Work, Home, Crazy

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.
Herbert Simon

Truth, Moment, Else

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance

Computers, Writing, Hard

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.
Midge Ure

Good, Great, Fun

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
Hayao Miyazaki

Great, Used, Deal

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
Andrew Stanton

Life, Before, Touched

It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
Zack Snyder

Real, Same, House

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
John Cale

Everything, Remember, Value

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
Jason Ritter

Time, Fair, Open

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.
Margaret Mahy

Work, Rather, Days

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
Lee Ann Womack

Love, Actually, Four

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.
Robert Shea

Fun, Important, Creativity

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.
Jimmy Carl Black

Good, Started, Second

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen

Work, Art, Game

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
Fred Saberhagen

Work, Character, Game

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.
Ricky Schroder

Time, Focus, Passion

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
Seth Lloyd

Powerful, Everything, Wanted

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
Seth Lloyd

Thinking, Universe

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
Paul Kane

Business, Live, Lonely

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.
Paul Kane

Life, Friends, Special

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
Jon Postel

Writing, Weird, Guy

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