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Computers Quotes

How people talked about computers before they were everywhere.

These quotes span decades of attitudes toward computers - one mathematician once dismissed them as low-class next to pure math, while another warns against assuming computers can substitute for real teaching. More at Internet.

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

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in...

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

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

Quotes by Adam Osborne

Internet Quotes

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

Quotes by Adam Osborne

AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

I don't know anything about computers.

Quotes by Adam Carolla

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Quotes by Adam Brody

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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical...

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I...

Quotes by Aaron Patzer

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing...

Quotes by Aaron Koblin

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in...

Quotes by Aaron Koblin

Me Quotes

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Quotes by Yael Naim

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

Quotes by William Shatner

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Quotes by William Landay

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

Quotes by Wietse Venema

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these computer quotes take a positive or skeptical view of technology?
It's mixed - there's mathematical snobbery toward computers, skepticism about computers replacing teachers, an anxious economic comment about international competition, and a nostalgic, neutral mention of early home computers.
Is there a quote from someone who didn't take computers seriously at first?
Yes - one speaker, a mathematician, admits, "I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that" - an honest look at changing attitudes toward computing in academia.
Is there a quote about computers in education?
Yes - one quote states plainly: "The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success."
What's the quote about Japanese computers about?
It's presented as the speaker's own pointed opinion from a particular moment of economic anxiety about international competition, asking "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?" - not a claim this page treats as fact, just a preserved reflection of that era's concerns.
Is there a quote about someone's first computer?
Yes - a simple, nostalgic one: "My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II." For related themes, see our Technology quotes or Internet quotes pages.

There's nostalgia too, with mentions of first machines like a Timex Sinclair or Apple II. Explore More or Like.