Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

Marc Andreessen

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

W. Richard Stevens

My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

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.

Debbie Harry

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

Basically, they'll be going from their computers to their seats. It will cut down on ticket will-call lines and better accommodate last-minute ticket purchasers.

Jimmy Fallon

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.

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.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

The deal says, you stick to computers and we'll stick to music.

Jack Kilby

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

John Flaherty

He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible.

If you are going to need more computers in a school, you need to know that before you start renovating so you can provide the electrical hookups necessary.

If something happens, it's going to be sociological rather than technological. We won't see Y2K problems because of computers. It's just not going to happen.

Roger McGuinn

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

We're still working on getting digital microscopes and computers.

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.

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

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

We see ourselves as being SMB-enablers because we talk to our customers at the outset in order to find out what data is important to them. The main dashboard displays the main metrics that the person needs to see every day. Therefore, the dashboard contents will differ depending on whether the person is a CEO, CFO, sales manager, or sales rep, for example.

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.

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.

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,

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'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.

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

Irwin Winkler

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