Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ahmed Zewail

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

A. N. Wilson

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

While the US accounted for over half of all spam sent two years ago, it is now less than a quarter. This shows that more Americans are protecting their home computers from hackers. The reality is simply that more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers to steal information or send out spam.

We had some problems with folks not being in the computer yet. Once we got those sorted out, we seemed to go OK.

We are excited to let the system automatically index and verify our data and do its job. After all, isn't that why we have computer systems?

The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.

Andrew Buchan

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

Fifteen years ago it used to be hard products, now there's a lot more manufacturer reps, particularly in computer repair, service, Web site designers.

Esther Dyson

There are also computers with Windows that stick.

David Perry

There are about 300 million computers on the Internet (but) the number of NT installations on desktops is relatively miniscule,

Bill Brandt

Without exception, they were DVDs and computer files.

George Allen

We don't mind taking the money and using it simply for computers and technology initiatives that we as Virginias have determined, but I don't want them doing anything to harm our standards.

We consider it right to establish the dissemination of extremist information, including via the Internet, computer games and other similar media, as a contributing factor to crime.

We wanted it to be useful to everyday New Englanders, ... We have the town common, weve got the Kennedy family, we have Revolutionary War heroes, we have great mills, we have New England inventors ... But then we have the very new - we have biotechnology and the computer industry.

We've had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, ... The kids really like the new computers and a lot of them come here to hang out with their friends and do their homework after school.

We've had more demand for the iMac than we have seen for any computer in (our) history, ... It's just phenomenal.

Wrapped every single thing with newspaper, everything from wreaths on the wall to my computer keyboard and mouse.

George Gray

Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind,

There is nothing about computer security in the law -- nothing.

There could have been something wrong with the door, or it could have been a faulty switch or misinformation by the computer system.

Don Nickles

To be sitting on their hands and say 'Well we didn't get into their computer until March of '99' and this guy was a suspect back in '95 is just unacceptable ... I think heads ought to roll.

Thomas J. Watson Jr. felt there would be really hard problems that computers could solve.

Bruce Feirstein

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

Irwin Winkler

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Mehcad Brooks

When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.

We would like to find no evidence of previous exploitation, ... We hope there's nothing on the computer and videos for the child's sake.

Alan Cox

There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

Alan Cox

There is a difference between being a hacker and the ""socially inadequate computer geek"" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

We thought most people would be able to get to a computer during lunch. It's impossible to make everyone happy.

Sean Maloney

We thought for some time that handhelds would require computer processing.

We think within three years, 60 percent of all desktop computers shipped will be these small form-factor devices. And that could happen even sooner.

Neil Gershenfeld

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.