c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
— Sebastian Thrun
I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
— Gary Paulsen
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
— Steve Jobs
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
— Ray Kurzweil
Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
— Paul Davies
Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.
— James Comey
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
— Stephen Hawking
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
— Steve Wozniak
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
— Nicholas Negroponte
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'. 
— Bruce Schneier
Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.
— Wolfgang Petersen
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use. 
— Douglas Adams
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
— Mstislav Rostropovich
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
— Ray Kurzweil
As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
— Bill Maris
Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.
— Peter Thiel
The computer is a moron.
— Peter Drucker
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
— Bill Gates
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
— James Hilton
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.
— Justin Long
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
— Steve Wozniak
Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.
— Ann McLane Kuster
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.
— Michio Kaku
The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
— James Comey
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
— Danielle Berry
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
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
— Dave Barry
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
— Jack Welch
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
— Noam Chomsky
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
— Richard Dawkins
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
— Ted Nelson
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
— Adam Osborne
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
— Ray Kurzweil
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
— Tim O'Reilly
In short, software is eating the world.
— Marc Andreessen
We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
— Nick Park
If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
— Niklas Zennstrom
Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
— Jackie Chan
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
— Steve Jobs
By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?
— Seth Shostak
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.
— Charles C. Mann
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
— Alan Turing
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.
— Roy Romer
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.
— Ellen Hopkins
I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
— Damian Marley
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
— Steve Wozniak
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
— Dave Grohl
I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.
— Tyler Cowen
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
— Alan Dershowitz
Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.
— Mikko Hypponen
Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.
— Brian Kernighan
I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.
— Trent Reznor
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
— Satya Nadella
I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
— Jeff Bezos
Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.
— Mo Farah
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
— James Dyson
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
— Mitch Kapor
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
— Rodney Brooks
It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
— Bill Budge
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
— Daniel Greenberg
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
— Luis von Ahn
I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.
— Robert Ludlum
In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.
— Gillian Gilbert
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
— Thomas Nagel
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
— Jaan Tallinn
No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
— Walt Mossberg
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
— Tim Berners-Lee
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
— Eugene Jarvis
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
— Sherry Turkle
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
— Peter Drucker
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
— Thabo Mbeki
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
— Steve Jobs
Computers make me totally blank out.
— Dalai Lama
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
— Mike Royko
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
— Alvin Toffler
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.
We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
— Lynn Jurich
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
— Douglas Rushkoff
Computers double their performance every month.
— Stephen Hawking
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.
— Gregory Benford
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. 
— Stephen Hawking
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
— Milton Glaser
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
— Issey Miyake
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
— Stephen Hawking
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
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
— Tim Berners-Lee
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
— Raf Simons
When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.
— Mitchel Resnick
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
— Bill Laswell
We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.
— George M. Church
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.
— Tyler Cowen
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
— Jack Kilby
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
— Robert Orben
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
— Bill James
Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
— Alan Perlis
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
— Ken Olsen
The power of the computer is starting to spread.
— Bill Budge
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
— Edward Tufte
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
— Ralph Merkle
One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
— Steve Case
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
— Steve Wozniak
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
— Jaron Lanier
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
— Emilio Estevez
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
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
— Scott Weiland
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
— Jo Ann Davis
We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
— Jack Wagner
I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
— Kevin Mitnick
I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!
— Lech Walesa
Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
— Sam Wyly
I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
— Magnus Carlsen
How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.
— Mario Gabelli
One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.
— Marc Andreessen
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
— Eric Schmidt
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
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
— David Lynch
I fix my grandchildren's computers.
— Alan Alda
I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.
— Kevin Mitnick
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
— Neil Gershenfeld
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
— Aaron Swartz
I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.
— Mo Ibrahim
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
— Mitch Kapor
I think that technology - computers and smart phones and 24-hour availability - often leaves me, and others I know, feeling blank and depressed at the end of a day. I also believe that hyped expectations for raising children leaves many women and men feeling as if their days are a blur of carpools and play-groups and tutors.
— Rebecca Traister
I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.
— Walt Dohrn
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.
— Keith Barry
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
— Lynn Abbey
When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
— Richard Stallman
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
— Eric Schmidt
I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
— Kate Winslet
My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
— Naveen Jain
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
— Peter Diamandis
Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.
— Kevin Mitnick
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
— Douglas Rushkoff
For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
— Walt Mossberg
No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
— Dave Grohl
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
— Marjane Satrapi
Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.
— Mark Skousen
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.
— Brian Acton
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
— Jack Kilby
I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong. 
— Carla Bruni
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
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
— Sherry Turkle
I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments. 
— Danger Mouse
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
— Richard Dawkins
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. 
— Stephen Hawking
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
— Buzz Aldrin
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
— Buzz Aldrin
Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
— Penn Jillette
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
— Penn Jillette
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
— Brian Eno
When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.
— Brian Eno
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
— Brian Eno
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
— Brian Eno
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
— Martin Freeman
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
— Mark Zuckerberg
The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
— Mark Zuckerberg
With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.
— Bill Cosby
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
— William Shatner
Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.
— Seth Shostak
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
— Peter Diamandis
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
— Peter Diamandis
I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.
— Jo Brand
'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.
— Craig Venter
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
— Nicolas Cage
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
— Zooey Deschanel
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
— Viggo Mortensen
Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.
— Charles Duhigg
Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.
— John Lasseter
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
— Peter Jackson
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
— Alex Berenson
Most computers today have built in backup software.
— Barton Gellman
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
— Barton Gellman
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
— Barton Gellman
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
— Barton Gellman
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
— Richard P. Feynman
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
— Kevin Mitnick
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
— Kevin Mitnick
If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.
— Michio Kaku
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions, you create lasers, you create transistors, computers, GPS.
— Michio Kaku
Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.
— Simon Mainwaring
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.
— Douglas Rushkoff
Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.
— Louis C. K.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
— Peter Thiel
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.
— David Hockney
India for sure is a mobile-first country. But I don't think it will be a mobile-only country for all time. An emerging market will have more computing in their lives, not less computing, as there is more GDP and there is more need. As they grow, they will also want computers that grow from their phone.
— Satya Nadella
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.
— Matthew McConaughey
Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.
— Bill Dedman
I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
— Marc Jacobs
When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
— Vint Cerf
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
— Vint Cerf
The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.
— Jason Calacanis
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
— Matt Mullenweg
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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
I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I'd end up with 33 vests.
— Mary Berry
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
— Marc Andreessen
People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
— Marc Andreessen
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
— Marc Andreessen
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'
— Marc Andreessen
We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
— Masayoshi Son
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
— David Mamet
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
— Mariella Frostrup
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
— Walt Mossberg
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
— Walt Mossberg
I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.
— Jenny Lewis
The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.
— Jonathan Ive
I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
— Martin Rees
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.
— Martin Rees
Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
— Britney Spears
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
— Mother Angelica
I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.
— Ellen Ullman
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
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.
— Ellen Ullman
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.
— Ellen Ullman
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
— Ellen Ullman
Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing.
— Ginni Rometty
At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.
— Letitia Baldrige
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
— Wendy Kopp
People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers.
— Katie Taylor
I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.
— Cary Fukunaga
The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.
— Ruth Reichl
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
— Will Self
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.
— Will Self
Computers intimidate me.
— Dylan Lauren
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
— Mitch Kapor
I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.
— Mitch Kapor
In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'
— Terry Teachout
In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn't have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging.
— Marvin Ammori
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
— Linus Torvalds
You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world. 
— Shiv Nadar
I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through.
— Shiv Nadar
When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
— John Madden
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
— Rick Perlstein
I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.
— Bradley Wiggins
In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to render images into actionable data. But using neural network technology, the company has trained computers to extract that data automatically - and with a level of accuracy that meets or beats human operators.
— John Battelle
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
— Dave Barry
As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
— Ryan Holmes
Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.
— Alex Morgan
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
— Scott Weiland
All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.
— Willie Nelson