28.9.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Computers (1)


I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

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

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

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

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

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

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

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

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins

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

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
Dave Barry

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Dave Barry

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov

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

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce

The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter Drucker

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
Doug Larson

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Clifford Stoll

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

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

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

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

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Linus Torvalds

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

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Niklaus Wirth

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Jack Welch

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben

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

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Erykah Badu

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
Dan Rather

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti

I just became one with my browser software.
Bill Griffith

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
Paul Kantner

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 

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