130+ Computer Quotes and Sayings That Are Worth Reading

Quotes About Computer

Check some of these computer quotes about its function in society.

• "A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." - Joseph Weizenbaum

• "Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows." - Anonymous

• "The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do." - Marc Andreessen

• "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't." - Anonymous

• "Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us." - Jef Raskin

• "Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable." - Orson Scott Card

• "Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn." - Steve Jobs

• "Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress." - Arlaina Tibensky

• "It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate." - Nicholas P. Negroponte

• "Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future." - Enrico Bombieri

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

• "Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything." - Ted Nelson

• "The similarities between humans and computers are more numerous than the differences." - P.A. Scott

• "The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine." - Sherry Turkle

• "Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output." - Greg Perry

• "It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow." - Craig Bruce

• "Computers no longer interface with humans they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival." - Alan Cooper

• "The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before." - Bill Gates

• "Computers have lots of memory but no imagination." - Anonymous

• "Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success." - Tom DeMarco

• "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Sydney J. Harris

• "If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result." - Richard Dawkins

• "The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord." - Anonymous

• "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are." - Clive James

• "The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work." - Brian Eno

• "The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." - Wernher von Braun

• "Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions." - Steve Wozniak

• "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." - Mitch Ratcliffe

• "Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system." - Stan Augarten

• "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Andy Rooney

Computer Science Quotes

These are some computer quotes about the system of the computer itself.

• "Computer Science is a science of abstraction-creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it." - Alfred Aho

• "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

• "Code never lies, comments sometimes do." - Ron Jeffries

• "Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science." - Maria Klawe

• "Computer science is the operating system for all innovation." - Steve Ballmer

• "I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not." - Tony Hsieh

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

• "The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day." - Eric Schmidt

• "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra

• "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

• "I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits." - Kent Beck

• "Good code is its own best documentation." - Steve McConnell

• "Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence." - Frederick Lenz

• "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler

• "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones." - Donald Knuth

• "The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection." - Bjarne Stroustrup

• "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." - William C. Brown

• "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." - Brian Kernighan

• "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." - Edsger Dijkstra

• "When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night." - Marissa Mayer

• "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

• "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

• "Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." - Eric S. Raymond

Computer Quotes and Sayings

More computer quotes and sayings are here.

• "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." - Albert Einstein

• "Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in this world that just don't add up." - Evan Esar

• "The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask." - James Cameron

• "Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology." - Dani Harper

• "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding." - Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

• "To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer." - Bill Vaughan

• "The computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster." - Edward M. Esber

• "Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs." - Seth Lloyd

• "The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them." - Austin Kleon

• "Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans." - Jonny Lee Miller

• "Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers." - Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

• "Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries." - Joseph B. Wirthlin

• "Computers can be made to direct the performance of any machine." - Frank Herbert

• "There is nothing the computer can do that the human mind cannot do." - Vasudev Vasanthi

• "There is no limit. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite amount of operations." - Vasudev Vasanthi

• "Computers help us communicate quickly and efficiently with others throughout the world." - Bradley Miller

• "The computer which has altered our lives almost as much as the automobile and may ultimately surpass it in influence." - Bradley Miller

• "Computers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are small and inexpensive. Some are huge and very expensive." - Gerald S. Snyder

• "Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions." - David A. Price

• "We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan." - Ellen Ullman

• "Computers are simultaneously celebrated as a more optimal choice for making social decisions." - Dale Hample

• "Computers have no idea what goes on outside of them except what humans tell them." - Ellen Ullman

• "Computer represents deliberate mock-up or artificial imitation of human intellectual activity." - Marcello Barbieri

• "Magical boxes called computers which are apparently able to transform any kind of information to a binary code of zeros and ones." - Freya Schiwy

• "Remember, when you connect with another computer, you're connecting to every computer that computer has connected to." - Dennis Miller

• "Computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind." - Theodore Roszak

• "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - David Webber

• "Computers don't lie, but liars can compute." - Terry Hayes

• "Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress." - Arlaina Tibensky

• "Computer is a link to the outside world." - Arlaina Tibensky

Computer Quotes Funny

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A little bit humorous, these are some funny computer quotes you can read.

• "I'm sorry that I'm not updating my Facebook status, my cat ate my mouse." - Unknown

• "I love my computer because all my friends live inside it!" - Unknown

• "Why can't cats work on the computer? They get too distracted chasing the mouse around." - Unknown

• "Sleeping on my keyboard. If I answer, I'm talking in my sleep." - Unknown

• "Life is too short to remove USB safely." - Unknown

• "I know how to live my life to the fullest.. but let's speak later after I finish playing some computer games." - Unknown

• "I changed my password everywhere to 'incorrect.' That way when I forget it, it always reminds me, "Your password is incorrect." - Unknown

• "If you think patience is a virtue, try surfing the net without high-speed Internet." - Unknown

• "My wife never gives up. She is so insistent that she entered the wrong password over and over again until she managed to convince the computer that she's right!" - Unknown

• “It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.” — Craig Bruce

• "The only sure way to make a computer go faster is to throw it out the window." - Unknown

• "My wife loves me so much, she tries her best to attract me to her. The other day she put on a perfume that smells like a computer." - Unknown

• “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” — Emo Philips

• "The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation." - Leo Cherne

• "Computer dating is fine if you're a computer." - Unknown

• "I just sneezed next to my computer and the anti-virus popped up." - Unknown

• "I called tech support and told them my computer is frozen. They said to hold the power button, and I was like 'Ummm... it's covered with iceman." - Unknown

• "The only relationship I have is with my Wi-Fi. We have a connection." - Unknown

• "Dear humans, in case you forgot, I used to be your Internet. Sincerely, The Library." - Unknown

• "Life is a pretty cheezy game, but at least it has good graphics." - Unknown

• "All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men." - Isaac Asimov

• "A computer is almost human except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer." - Anonymous

• "It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you." - Tom Clancy

• "Computers are like old testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." - Joseph Campbell

• "A computer does not smell, if a book is new, it smells great." - Ray Bradbury

From these computer quotes, you might realize that the day computer is invented, it becomes a big step for humans to become a more advanced civilization.

So, it is true that the computer is one of the important inventions in these past centuries.