I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
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.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.