Quotes about Computers

“The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed and dived. There are some songs out that are made by only one guy who works a computer and doesn't play any instruments.”

“I just grew up liking computers and stuff like that. Mainly cool stuff, like video games.”

“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.”

“In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.”

“I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.”

“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.”

“Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.”

“When computers came online and people found out people weren't mixing there was uproar, and outed. But now that hasn't happened. People don't seem to care.”

“This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.”

“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.”

“I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.”

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

“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.”

“I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.”

“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”

“The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.”

“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.”

“I prefer my real friends over fake humanoids run by computers and true trolls filled with genuine venom.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.”