As an entrepreneur, you rely on your computer to stay productive and keep your business moving forward. But sometimes, it’s easy to take your computer for granted.

The best computer quotes

1. Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. — Stephen Hawking

2. Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra

3. You need face time, not computer time. When you’re in a tough job market, it’s the personal touch that gets you the job. — Suze Orman

4. The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you. — Scott B. Pruden

5. People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing–Cord 8 : Are we Computers? — Santosh Avvannavar

6. I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, ‘Why don’t you just call?’ — William Shatner

7. Face–to–face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine. — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

8. Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer. — Timothy Leary

9. The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st–century skills. — Nicholas Negroponte

10. Living with computers gives funny ideas. — Wim Crouwel

11. He’s computerized, but I won’t let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car. — William Daniels

12. People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing–Cord 8 : Are we Computers? — Santosh Avvannavar

13. The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. — Spencer Abraham

14. The brain is a robot–computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. — Timothy Leary

15. Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. — Richard Dawkins

16. I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time. — Zooey Deschanel

17. I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap. — Miroslav Vitous

18. I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences. — Tony Hawk

19. I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I’d end up with 33 vests. — Mary Berry

20. Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience — Steven Magee

21. It would be nice to design a real briefcase–you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books. — Steve Wozniak

22. 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

23. People are always looking at their phones and computer. It’s the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone’s keeping in touch and getting their news. — Theophilus London

24. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions. — Steve Wozniak

25. In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak. — Rachel Vincent, Rogue

26. They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. — Ted Nelson

27. The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. — Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

28. The computer is a moron. — Peter Drucker

29. Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable. — Michio Kaku

30. The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. — Waseem Latif

31. You need face time, not computer time. When you’re in a tough job market, it’s the personal touch that gets you the job. — Suze Orman

32. I can change a tire, but I couldn’t change a fuse on the computer panel on my car. — Mike O’Malley

33. Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them. — Steven Magee

34. Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that’s crashing. — Steve Kluger

35. My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. — Penn Jillette

36. What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? — Walter F. Mondale

37. Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. — Stephen Hawking

38. I’ve been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. — Masi Oka

39. Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. — Ted Nelson

40. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken–down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. — Stephen Hawking

41. There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is, sit on the computer and bleed your thoughts. — Santosh Kalwar

42. Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer–genera ted robots will take over our world. — Stephen Hawking

43. Every child should learn to program a computer because it will teach you how to think. — Steve Jobs

44. As dad would always say, when in doubt–play for time. — Nick Bantock, The Venetian’s Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

45. Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.  — Steve Jobs

46. I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. — Steve Wozniak

47. Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data. — Vincent Collins, No Points

48. You couldn’t have fed the ’50s into a computer and come out with the ’60s. — Paul Kantner

49. The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. — Ted Nelson

50. 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

Conclusion

We hope this collection of the best quotes about computers has inspired and motivated you to reach new heights with your tech skills. Remember that the more you practice and stay up-to-date with technology, the better you’ll become. So start exploring and get creative with your computer!