#computers

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#computer #games #legitimate #only #play

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#computers #electronics #first #i #i think

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#big #come #computers #electronics #first

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#communicate #communication #computers #even #find

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#am #barely #comes #complete #gee

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. ↗

— Bob Taft

#combination #connections #economy #explosive #global

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#combine #commercial #free #free software #shareware

The computer is a moron. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#computer #moron

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#computers #science-fiction #science

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#humor #sex #technology #technophobes #wit