Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paula Zahn

We are continuing our coverage of tonight's big story: A computer worm that is spreading havoc in systems all over the world, ... Here is exactly what we know right now: Someone has unleashed a worm that cripples computers by forcing them to continuously shut down and restart. It's been a wild scene around our newsroom today because of that.

We are looking at purchasing a computer program that would shut down the more than 900 computers that are on the network. The software will cost the district about $500 and save us more than $23,000 in energy costs per year.

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

Fareed Zakaria

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

John Hanson

The rate of obsolescence in computer and electronics industries is so incredible that you have vast quantities of waste entering the waste stream, and the infrastructure to deal with that hasn't developed.

There is a terribly fine line. So, what the retailers are doing is using computers to do the work for them so they can downgrade their staffing quality.

Tony Hawk

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

We don't have to have someone sit at a computer and key in every citation.

Hallie Ephron

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

We are opposites - he is very methodical and is a computer genius. I am not. Between my Dyslexia and ADHD, it was a miracle that I made it through school at all.

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Vivek Wadhwa

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

Rick Yancey

I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

Alan Greenspan

The demand for new computer applications will no doubt continue to spur demand for those with the creativity and the higher-level conceptual skills that will enable us to increasingly harness technology to produce greater economic value,

Tom Chatfield

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.

By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

JC Chasez

When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.

will.i.am

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the computers that were stolen. They're your typical office computer for e-mails and the like.

On the (clock's) computer it counts down to 100s of a second, which doesn't show on the clock. So you won't get that buzzer until that computer hits 0:00. That's why there is a delay. We did discuss it before the match that we would go with the buzzer and not the time on the clock.

Maria Semple

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

One of the problems with portable computers is that they are not always on your network. This lets the administrator install the software without having to worry about which systems have it installed and which don't.

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

Brian Setzer

My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.

One that went out in January was fishing for personal financial information. One earlier this month spread a computer virus.

One of the things Sober does is it turns your computer into a spam zombie.

Marc Andreessen

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.

Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

W. Richard Stevens

My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.