Quotes about Computers

“That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.”

“Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.”

“I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.”

“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.”

“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.”

“I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.”

“My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.”

“Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.”

“Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want to. It might hurt you to discipline your offspring, but it saves the child from being disciplined later by someone less forgiving. Like a criminal court judge. If you don't spank your child, someone else will.”

“They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.”

“Because the last time I saw my family was 2015. Sometimes I even forget what they look like, you know? It's so hard to communicate with them. Because Turkish police raided my house. They took electronics away, computers away. They wanted to see if I'm still in contact with my family or not. Any single text, they will all be in jail.”

“Instruments are just planks of wood, or just computers or whatever, but they help us translate the most difficult aspects of life and make the conversations we have much easier and much more universal.”

“I do like to get away from technology. I still read a lot. Having said that, most of my reading is on computers or a Kindle or an iPad.”

“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.”

“I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.”

“How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.”

“I fix my grandchildren's computers.”