Famous Quotes & Sayings

Inventions today are on such a small scale that you can't tell what they do by looking at them because a lot of innovations today are all in computer code. This is a time where you can tell what the purpose of the thing was just by looking at it. The disparity between then and now was interesting to us.

John Taylor

I gave the idea to Josh and he just went with it. In 2001, he had most of the parts made. It's made with a lot of old computer parts.

Terry Teachout

In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

Tony Fadell

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.

It has to be secure by design, so grandma doesn't have to be a computer expert.

I'm at the grandparent stage I have two grandkids that come over a lot, and they use my computer. I make it a point to monitor where they go and we have the computer where they can be monitored easily.

Janet Reno

If we are to ensure public safety and responsible computer use, then government, industry and the public must all work together,

If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.

If you're not on your computer actually looking for that, you're not going to see it. But people who drive by, they can see the sign.

If you're a hard-working, flexible, task-oriented computer type with overseas experience, go to the front of the line.

In those 20 days, this one computer received 5 million connection requests from spammers, and sent 18 million spam messages.

I don't know if panic is the right word, but computer users shouldn't take this lightly. You need to be protecting your system from all these kinds of outbreaks.

Mona Simpson

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Jack Nicklaus

I can barely turn on my computer!

If Jewel Quest was a person, I would punch them in the effing face.

If liquid water pops out onto Mars' surface, it can create short gullies about 550-yards (500-meters) long. We used a computer to simulate the flow of liquid water within gully channels.

Jon Porter

In 2003 alone, Nevada experienced an 88 percent increase with significant gains in machinery, computer and electronic manufacturing.

Martin Millar

I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.

Markus Persson

I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

Richard Mitchell

I never even worked on (computers) out on the streets -- never even been on the Internet, ... I didn't even know how to turn them on.

I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use it.

In the future, ... people will live twice as long, computers will die twice as fast.

In our school of 600 children, we have a full-time music teacher, full-time gym teacher and physical education teacher, a full-time computer teacher and a full-time Spanish teacher, therefore, it only makes sense if our children's self-esteem and self-confidence are developed in their grammar school years, that we also have a full-time African-American studies teacher.

In our opinion, online ordering is the wave of the future. However, today, the vast majority of people pick up their telephone and not a computer keyboard to place their pizza order.

Steve Jones

Innovation is rarely seen as taking things away or making them simpler. We've had so much time to come up with a computer and Internet that are easier to use and work better, but we haven't done it.

Scott Michael Foster

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

Jeff Lemire

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

By internalizing their Internet services instead of outsourcing them, it could be a good thing for Gateway. It's not critical, though. They're doing well with their hardware, their personal computer sales, so it's not as important overall.

Jon Postel

I am the Director of the Computer Networks Division of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

Steve Wozniak

But it was kind of fun to have a company, and that was good enough reason to do it. And step by step, boy, it was right timing. Computers were exploding and we were in it exactly at the right time.

Stephen Breyer

But the wonderful thing about human memory is, it forgets, ... And so you always have another chance. People don't remember after a time. The computer remembers forever. There it is: picture recorded.

This is a big downer for retailers and for computer manufacturers because they were all looking forward to having something new to sell this holiday.