People Quotes

I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

~ Nancy Lublin

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

~ Josh Klinghoffer

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

~ Diego Giacometti

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

~ Marissa Mayer

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

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

~ Steve Jobs

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

~ Ray Kurzweil

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.

~ Bill Gates

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

~ Dave Grohl

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

~ Mitch Kapor

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

~ Rodney Brooks

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

~ Bill Budge

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.

~ Thabo Mbeki

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

~ Raf Simons

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

~ Bill James

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

~ Steve Case

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

~ Sam Wyly

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

~ Eric Schmidt

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

~ David Lynch

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

~ John Lasseter

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

~ Kevin Mitnick

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

~ Britney Spears

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

~ Ellen Ullman

People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers.

~ Katie Taylor

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

~ Cary Fukunaga

Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.

~ George M. Church

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

~ Howard Rheingold

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

~ Eric Schmidt

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

~ Steve Wozniak

GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

~ Jack Dangermond

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

~ Elizabeth Mccracken

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

~ Jack White

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

~ Elizabeth Debicki

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

~ Marina Abromovic

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

~ Busy Philipps