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Quotes About Evolution

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
~ Larry Wall
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
~ Annie Leibovitz
The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.
~ Phil Donahue
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
~ Douglas Coupland
The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.
~ Martin Gardner
Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
~ Bill Gates
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
~ Bill Murray
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
~ Gordon Bell
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.
~ Unknown
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
~ John Gruber
I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.
~ Michael Bierut
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.
~ Douglas Adams
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
~ Ken Olsen
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
~ Joe Cocker
When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.
~ Seth Lloyd
If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.
~ William Davis
It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.
~ Kate Bush
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.
~ Pauline Oliveros
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.
~ Paul Dourish
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.
~ Phil Coulter
Computer viruses are alive.
~ Stephen Hawking
I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!
~ Unknown
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
~ Alice Walker