Computers Quotes

Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.

Naval Ravikant

MoneyComputersEverythingTake

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.

Justine Bateman

SchoolComputersHigh SchoolThink

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Mickey Rourke

DoorComputersDownEverythingDays

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

Nathan Myhrvold

TimeComputersPowerfulNewMore

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

James Dyson

NatureTodayComputersUsAlmost

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

ArchitectureControlComputersSystem

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

Jaan Tallinn

ComputersBetterViewChessEvidence

When computers came along, I felt for the first time that I had the proper tools for the kind of theoretical work I wanted to do. So I moved over to that, and that got me into psychology.

Herbert A. Simon

WorkTimeMeComputersToolsKind

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

CookingComputersDesign

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

J. G. Ballard

TimeComputersRealityHelpWill

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Graham Hawkes

GoodComputersUpThingsChanging

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.

Lisa Loeb

SportsDanceSchoolComputersGym

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Irwin Winkler

WorldComputersThinkInterestJust

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Eric Schmidt

GoodMemoryPeopleComputersLiving

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

TogetherComputersBackOverOut

There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

Felix Dennis

LifeComputersPersonEverydayCost

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Eugene Jarvis

ComputersPlayGamesOnlyComputer

I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

BestComputersFinancialNumbersOut

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

MistakesPeopleComputersThinkYou

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

WorldComputersEarlySoftwareUp

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Douglas Engelbart

WritingComputersRevolutionDigital

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

Calvin Harris

BrotherStartComputersRightBig

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

Dave Parnas

WorkComputersSoftwareRealRule

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

Douglas Rushkoff

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