Quotes about Computers

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make millions out of a tiny change in exchange rates, but none that can rescue the poorest countries from their plight. We know how to make Internet pornography, but not how to repair marriages. The very objectivity or neutrality of scientific knowledge as commonly conceived has played into the hands of the gods we secretly worship.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.