"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."

Computer,

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."

Exlpore more Computer quotes

"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."

Bobby Sherman, American Musician

Computer, Learning

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

Computer, Computers, Father, Help, School

"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

Computer, Project, School

"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Computer, Universe

"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."

Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor

Computer, Computers, Will

"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."

Frederik Pohl, American Writer

Computer, Now, Years

"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Computer, Fact, Universe

"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."

Aaron Klug, British Physicist

Computer,

"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."

Roy Romer, American Politician

Computer, Manufacturing, Software

"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."

Roy Romer, American Politician

Computer, Computers, Knowledge, Software, Will

Explore more quotes by Vinton Cerf

"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."

Internet

"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content."

Content

"At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help."

Strength

"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."

Time

"First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense."

Business

"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."

Technology

"In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction."

Direction

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

Computer

"We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet."

Control

"We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily."

History