3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
3 December 2020 William Landay I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
3 December 2020 Steve Wozniak What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
3 December 2020 Erykah Badu Man, I don’t want to have nothing to do with computers. I don’t want the government in my business.
3 December 2020 Ted Nelson Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
3 December 2020 Issey Miyake Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
3 December 2020 Chuck D. 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.
3 December 2020 Eric Schmidt Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.
3 December 2020 Lynn Abbey When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
3 December 2020 John Hawkes The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
3 December 2020 Dave Parnas As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
3 December 2020 Lenny Kravitz We’re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
3 December 2020 Jack Kilby I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jef Raskin Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
3 December 2020 Mordechai Vanunu We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.
3 December 2020 L'Wren Scott 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.
3 December 2020 Jef Raskin Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
3 December 2020 Sherman Austin They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
3 December 2020 Stephen Wolfram So the thing I realized rather gradually – I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things – there’s a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
3 December 2020 Howard Aiken There’s my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
3 December 2020 Nicholas Negroponte Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
