Computers Quotes

The computer is a moron.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

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

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

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.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

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

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

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

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

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

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

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.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

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.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?