Quotes about Computers

“I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.”

“My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.”

“I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.”

“I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.”

“Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.”

“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.”

“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”

“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.”

“What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?”

“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.”

“I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.”

“Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.”

“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.”

“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.”

“I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.”

“Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.”

“Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.”

“You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.”

“Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.”

“Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.”

“Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.”