Computer Quotations | Page 8

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

The day you can get cash from your computer is the day everyone will switch to online banking.

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

I never use a computer.

His computer password is "password.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

What we saw this past month was a significant increase in the number of Trojans. That is a program that embeds itself in the computer and does something when you least expect it.

This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

Computers don't kill books; people do.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

I don't know anything about computers.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.

The real problem is Netscape Communicator taking a powerful script and putting it out on your computer in a locale where any Web site can find it out and run it.

We're trying to take advantage of value where we can see it, and there are some obvious places. Computer Associates ( CA : Research , Estimates ) is the third-largest independent software company. It trades at a P/E multiple on forward earnings. It's about a third of Microsoft's today. It's growing at about 16, 17 percent, trades for about 13 times earnings. We think it's a very attractive asset. We think it's a great one and could go up as much as 30, 40 percent in the coming year.

With 18 per cent computer penetration in Malaysia, we hope that the new affordable multilingual Windows XP Starter Edition will attract more people in using computers, especially in their own native language.

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

We, as consumers, in the United States have begun to appreciate Toyota in a very similar way to that in which we appreciate (the computer company) Apple.

We consider it right to establish the dissemination of extremist information, including via the Internet, computer games and other similar media, as a contributing factor to crime.

We are working with the Computer Club for help with wireless Internet access.

We were not expecting to find these kinds of numbers because this was basically a group of savvy computer users. And when you have almost one-third of them saying Web shopping was extremely difficult or somewhat difficult, we think the average population is having even more difficulty.

When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.

When computer animation came in, they thought it would be the death of 3-D stop-motion, but it has a particular life of its own. It's hand-crafted and has a spontaneity. It can feel more alive. The hand of the individual is right there. Sometimes, you even see the thumbprints in the clay.

This rule makes sure that private health information doesn't fall victim to the progress of the information and technology age, ... where an array of data is readily available in computer systems and too often just a keystroke away from being assessed.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

There is a difference between being a hacker and the ""socially inadequate computer geek"" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

We would like to find no evidence of previous exploitation, ... We hope there's nothing on the computer and videos for the child's sake.

We thought most people would be able to get to a computer during lunch. It's impossible to make everyone happy.

We thought for some time that handhelds would require computer processing.

We should only issue work-related visas if we really need them. There are 2.5 million native born American workers in the math and computer field who are currently out of work. It begs the question whether we truly need foreign workers.

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.

We used to be able to collect and show proof of payment to ABC on overdue accounts. Now if a subscriber is one day late with a payment over 90 days, the computer system automatically eliminates the address from the paid circulation averages.

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

I don't even have my own computer.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

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

No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

To them it's a rational choice. It's just the best computer around.

To be sitting on their hands and say 'Well we didn't get into their computer until March of '99' and this guy was a suspect back in '95 is just unacceptable ... I think heads ought to roll.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

We've undertaken lots of storm surge computer simulation during the last five years, and we've proven the effect of (restored islands and marshes) in retarding storm waves and surges,

We've wired it so we can have a computer lab in here as well as a library. We are beginning to compile a library now. Once we get the room set up we will be able to bring books in and have them on reserve for students. Ultimately we hope to have a library. We will have a full service institution down here.

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer.

I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

The regular city auction works very well on particular items, like the bicycles, ... compared to some computer items, some computer stuff that may be of more interest in other areas.

We are also planning to set up an outsourcing centre for computer aided manufacturing (CAM) related work for global firms, including leading contract manufacturers.

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

Would you really buy a computer early if computing prices are falling? ... You'll probably have a bit of a bulge in spending in the fourth quarter, but we think people are overstating the benefits.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

We're seeing a lot of kids coming into computer science but not making it through the first course, ... Students appear to have more interest than ability.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.