Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Bryan Burrough

Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.

Barton Gellman

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

Carl Honore

In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.

Esther Dyson

There are also computers with Windows that stick.

David Perry

There are about 300 million computers on the Internet (but) the number of NT installations on desktops is relatively miniscule,

Daley Thompson

I don't even have my own computer.

There is nothing about computer security in the law -- nothing.

There could have been something wrong with the door, or it could have been a faulty switch or misinformation by the computer system.

This was the product that inspired people in graphic design, and students, and other creative people. It was the whole idea of computers not just being something you would see in the office.

Alan Cox

There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

Alan Cox

There is a difference between being a hacker and the ""socially inadequate computer geek"" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

We thought most people would be able to get to a computer during lunch. It's impossible to make everyone happy.

Sean Maloney

We thought for some time that handhelds would require computer processing.

We think within three years, 60 percent of all desktop computers shipped will be these small form-factor devices. And that could happen even sooner.

Don Nickles

To be sitting on their hands and say 'Well we didn't get into their computer until March of '99' and this guy was a suspect back in '95 is just unacceptable ... I think heads ought to roll.

Thomas J. Watson Jr. felt there would be really hard problems that computers could solve.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

George R. R. Martin

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

Eugene Wigner

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Elizabeth George

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Edsger Dijkstra

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

Arthur Miller

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

Graham Moore

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

Gene Luen Yang

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

We're still working on getting digital microscopes and computers.

John Madden

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

J. G. Ballard

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

Bill Atkinson

With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.

Beverly Lewis

There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.

The real problem is Netscape Communicator taking a powerful script and putting it out on your computer in a locale where any Web site can find it out and run it.

George Allen

We don't mind taking the money and using it simply for computers and technology initiatives that we as Virginias have determined, but I don't want them doing anything to harm our standards.