Computers Quotes

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

Just remember, in 1973, we had no digital cameras, no personal computers, no Internet. The thought of putting a billion transistors in a cell phone was ludicrous.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.