Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elmore Leonard

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.

Jenny Lewis

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

I don't think they really need Windows XP distribution. They already have deals with the four largest PC manufacturers, and that will give them the means of getting onto the desktop anyway, without having to do a deal with Microsoft.

Isaac Asimov

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

By taking control of unprotected PCs, hackers can relay spam, launch denial-of-service attacks, or steal user information, without computer owners being any the wiser.

Larry Wall

Just don't create a file called.

Larry Wall

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

Larry Wall

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Larry Wall

Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.

P. J. O'Rourke

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Michael Crichton

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

Martin Gardner

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Niklas Zennstrom

If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

Nicollette Sheridan

You can't trust the internet.

Hayao Miyazaki

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Jo Stafford

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Jo Brand

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

David Anderson

The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.

P. J. O'Rourke

Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

Eric Allin Cornell

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Dave Barry

And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Edward Tufte

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Orson Welles

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Ted Nelson

You can and must understand computers NOW.

Ted Nelson

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

Ted Nelson

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Ted Nelson

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The energy you use to light the space that you're in, the computer itself, the heating and cooling systems, all those systems are running.

Emma Stone

I'm not very computer savvy.

The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.

James Gleick

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.