“A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Nikola Tesla
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Computer Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Computer Quotes
Read 200 of the best computer quotes about machines, technology, logic and calculation, from Charles Babbage, Nikola Tesla, Leibniz, Pascal and more.
“By means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
NetworksTechnology
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
Henry David Thoreau
TechnologyCommunication
“Perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
Henry David Thoreau
NewsFunny
“What hath God wrought!”
Samuel Morse
TelegraphCommunication
“Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.”
Alexander Graham Bell
TelephoneHistory
“I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine.”
Mark Twain
TypewriterFunny
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself.”
Mark Twain
DataFunny
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Mark Twain
StatisticsFunny
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison
IdeasInnovation
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Thomas Edison
InventionCreativity
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.”
Lord Kelvin
DataMeasurement
“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe. It is written in the language of mathematics.”
Galileo Galilei
MathematicsScience
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
René Descartes
Problem SolvingAlgorithms
“Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done.”
Francis Bacon
ToolsTechnology
“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
Thomas Carlyle
ToolsTechnology
“Man is a tool-making animal.”
Benjamin Franklin
ToolsInvention
“Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TechnologyHistory
“The machine unmakes the man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TechnologyHumanity
“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine.”
Oscar Wilde
AutomationWork
“Upon the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”
Oscar Wilde
AutomationFuture
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
Jules Verne
ImaginationInnovation
“Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
The Bible (Daniel 12:4)
KnowledgeProgress
“Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
The Bible (Genesis 11:6)
AmbitionTechnology
“Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much.”
Francis Bacon
ToolsThinking