Internet and Computers Quotes
Top 10 Internet and Computers Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
The power of the Web is its universality.
- Tim Berners-Lee (1955- )
English inventor of the World Wide Web, pictured right.
So Berners-Lee also says:
The Web is a grassroots revolution.
No 2
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of
spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
- Lou Gerstner, American boss of IBM 1993-2002, pictured right.
So Lech Walesa, president of Poland 1990-5, pictured right , asks:
You have the riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith and direction. You have so many computers, why
don’t you use them in the search for love?
No 3
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B.F.Skinner (1904-90),
pictured right, American psychologist, pictured right.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist,
pictured right, also comments that computers don’t ask questions that lead to creativity and change:
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
No 4
We're in a race between computers and people - and we need to make sure that the people win.
- Eric Schmidt (1955- ), chairman of Google, pictured right .
No 5
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben (1927- ), US magician and comedy writer, pictured right.
No 6
I would trade all my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
- Steve Jobs (1955- 2011), co-founder of Apple,
pictured right.
No 7
What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share
information,
- Mark Zuckerberg (1984- ), founder of Facebook, pictured right.
No 8
The power of social media is it forces necessary change,
- Erik Qualman (1972- ) , American writer, pictured right.
No 9
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch (1935- ), American
boss of General Electric 1981-2001, pictured right.
No 10
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow,
- Bill Gates (1955- ), co-founder of Microsoft,
pictured right.
Gates also says:
The future of computing is the computer that talks, listens, sees and learns
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