Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Stoll

I've got a half-dozen computers in my house. But this cult of computing gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Dan Castellaneta

Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

I want to be able to take a laptop computer and make another laptop computer, not a speed bump. The dream with our technology is to be able, at low cost, to recover the polymer in its originally useful form.

It will really speed up our computer system. It's dramatic, what it will do for us. School computers will be able to talk together.

It would all be computer generated. We give them a list of kids and they do the selecting.

Steve Mann

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

David Carpenter

The use of laptop computers introduces a number of security threats to the Department of State and to every federal agency.

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.

They want to disrupt the entire industry. Hundreds of computer makers gearing up, thousands of Windows 98 resellers.

They want to disrupt the entire industry, ... Hundreds of computer makers gearing up, thousands of Windows 98 resellers.

They were the people who were supplying computer systems, computer software, computer hardware. That's what they did. We were the people supplying the music. And they crossed the dividing line.

They have positives in their business. It tells us we're not seeing a disaster in the computer market.

Aimee Bender

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

We see ourselves as being SMB-enablers because we talk to our customers at the outset in order to find out what data is important to them. The main dashboard displays the main metrics that the person needs to see every day. Therefore, the dashboard contents will differ depending on whether the person is a CEO, CFO, sales manager, or sales rep, for example.

Ahmed Zewail

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

A. N. Wilson

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Dan Farmer

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Clifford Stoll

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Clifford Stoll

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Peter Jackson

We used a lot of computer technology, and I think New York looks pretty convincing. I think most people will think we got in a time machine and somehow shot it in New York in '33.

Stephen Hawking

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Brian Acton

Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

Bob Taft

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

My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.

Stephen Stills

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

We had some problems with folks not being in the computer yet. Once we got those sorted out, we seemed to go OK.

We are excited to let the system automatically index and verify our data and do its job. After all, isn't that why we have computer systems?

The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.

Andrew Buchan

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

Fifteen years ago it used to be hard products, now there's a lot more manufacturer reps, particularly in computer repair, service, Web site designers.

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.