Computers Quotes

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

You can't trust the internet.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I just became one with my browser software.

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

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

The computer is a moron.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

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

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.