252 private quotes tagged computers

“In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.” — Reed Hastings

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“Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.” — David Arquette

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“A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.” — Scott Weiland

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“I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.” — Jared Leto

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“I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.” — Vinton Cerf

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“I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.” — Busy Philipps

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“Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.” — Paul Davies

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“From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.” — John Shadegg

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“I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.” — Michel Hazanavicius

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“You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.” — Chuck D.

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“To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.” — Adlai Stevenson

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“One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.” — Steve Case

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“One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.” — Steve Case

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“Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.” — Mike Shinoda

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“The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.” — Major Owens

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“People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.” — Eric Schmidt

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“Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.” — Bill James

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“I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

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“It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.” — Berkeley Breathed

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“The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.” — Colin Greenwood

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“It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!” — Warwick Davis

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“Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.” — L'Wren Scott

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“The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.” — Adam Osborne

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“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.” — Ralph Merkle

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“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.” — Darrell Issa

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