People Quotes

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

~ Mary Lou Jepsen

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

~ Chuck D

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

~ Pat Metheny

I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

~ Harold Ford

There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well.

~ Mikko Hypponen

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

~ Leslie Jones

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

~ Clive Thompson

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

~ Steve Case

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

~ Darrell Issa

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.

~ Tre Cool

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

~ Alain Robert

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

~ Cliff Stearns

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

~ Rodney Brooks

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

~ Philip Emeagwali

I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

~ John Maeda

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

~ Stephen Root

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

~ Donald Knuth

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

~ Jaan Tallinn

I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

~ Jaan Tallinn

We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

~ Ann Mclane Kuster

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

~ Brian Kernighan

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

~ Roberta Williams

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

~ Shelley Hennig

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

~ Bruce Schneier

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

~ Adam Osborne

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

~ Adam Osborne

The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

~ Robert Cailliau

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

~ Luis Von Ahn

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

~ Luis Von Ahn

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

~ Brenda Laurel

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

~ Conrad Wolfram

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

~ Avi Rubin

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

~ Sunny Mabrey

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

~ John Warnock

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

~ W. Daniel Hillis

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

~ Dale Dougherty

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

~ Martin Luther King

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

~ Epictetus