Computers Quotes

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Philip Emeagwali

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra

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

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Louis Gerstner

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
Clifford Stoll

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
Andy Rooney

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Nicholas Negroponte

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
Jonathan Shapiro