Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Mossberg

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Bill Calder

The Pentium name is the quintessential name of the gigahertz era. The gigahertz era is over.

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Rick Perlstein

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Nick Jonas

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

Frank Press

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Graham Davies

We've moved on through tape recorders to video, through to multimedia computers,

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.

Pat Metheny

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Susan Morris

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.