#computer

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#anything #back #business #computer #does

I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#alone #around #because #bed #bit

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#now #oppressing #our #right #servant

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. ↗

— Alain Robert

#believe #i #i believe #i believe in #modern

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#america #computer #copies #duplicate #even

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#computers #difficult #elizabethan #enjoyment #form

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#am #answer #asked #average #ensure

I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit. ↗

— Christian Slater

#branch #computer #everybody #fun #games

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#richard-feynmann #science #science