Top 1200 Macintosh Computers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Computers are stupid.

I don't know anything about computers.

One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I don't really love computers.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

Some people are on their darn computers all day long.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

Computers intimidate me.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

I build computers.

We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

Computers will be the death of us all.

Computers make people stupid.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

Today's meters are little computers.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

Something else has happened with computers.

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Living with computers gives funny ideas.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

Only if the computers really love each other.

Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

Computers double their performance every month.

I built computers and stuff when I was a teenager and whatever.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

You can and must understand computers now.

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley.

I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.