Famous Quotes & Sayings

The problem is that, just like real viruses, we can't stamp out computer strains. Viruses never go away, and what we don't need is 1 million virus signatures in virus scanners.

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Howard Rheingold

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Barton Gellman

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

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.

I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.

Paula McLain

There are many days when I want to throw my computer out the window, when I tell myself I'd be better off selling shoes at the mall. But I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.

David Arquette

Yeah, man, kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

You know how frustrating it is to work on a computer that functions slow.

Casey Neistat

My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.

Scott McNealy

Microsoft has a monopoly in computer operating systems, ... Microsoft the gateway to the Internet.

When talking about equipment, it's important to look at what kind of equipment the fund will be buying, ... It may be the kind of equipment with a long life that doesn't become obsolete over time. An airplane, for example, lasts over the long term and has a good resale value, but computer equipment may have a shorter useful term.

Josh Smith

You can either pay someone to drive around or you can pay for a computer to scan the area.

We've moved on through tape recorders to video, through to multimedia computers,

Virus writers are always looking for new tricks to entice innocent computer users into running their malicious code. This latest ploy feeds on people's desire for the latest news.

Ralph Merkle

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

We hope this settlement will make a lot of content holders, especially record companies, think twice about going down a similar road. Technology that is effective at stopping copying will always run the risk of exposing computers to hackers.

We don't have a computer system in place.

We get the feeling on the other side of our computer that no one is looking back at us through windows, and yet, everybody could be.

We have a surplus of office supplies. If folks are looking for a computer desk for their den, it's there.

David Perry

We need those open-source people. They uncover things. It's a laboratory of computer science. They demand the intellectual right to discuss this.

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.

Pat Metheny

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well.

Peter Jackson

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

Phil Schiller

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.

Phil Schiller

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.