Computer Quotes

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

The difference between a chimpanzee and a human brain is that the brain of a chimpanzee is largely unfurnished. Whereas we fill our brains with memes. We download hundreds of thousands of memes, and that's where we get our power from. Your computer or your phone isn't a very powerful device until you download some apps to it. Those are like memes.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

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

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

The brain is such an incredible computer.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.