Famous Quotes & Sayings

This worm is not new but it continues to spread and has a damaging payload. We want to urge all computer users to update their antivirus protection before the first trigger date on 3 February.

This won't be enough for people to overcome their technology inhibitions. A simple fear of the post won't make them use a computer better.

Annalee Newitz

To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.

Mike Shinoda

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Lynn Coady

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

Prince

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Dallas Roberts

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

Drew Goddard

I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.

Paul Rand

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

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.

I think what you see more with the computer thing now is two-game series. Those are rough things. You don't unpack your bag. You come in, you're wearing your suit and you wear your suit to the next game.

will.i.am

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Wilbur Smith

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

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.

Clifford Stoll

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Clifford Stoll

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Peter Jackson

We used a lot of computer technology, and I think New York looks pretty convincing. I think most people will think we got in a time machine and somehow shot it in New York in '33.

Stephen Hawking

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Brian Acton

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

Bob Taft

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.

Stephen Stills

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Bill Brandt

Without exception, they were DVDs and computer files.

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.

George R. R. Martin

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

Eugene Wigner

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.