“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
Eric Schmidt

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Read 200 of the best computer quotes from Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Donald Knuth and more on computers, programming, the internet and technology.
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
Eric Schmidt
“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”
Tim Berners-Lee
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
Clifford Stoll
“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
Mitchell Kapor
“As soon as it works, no one calls it AI any more.”
John McCarthy
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”
Marvin Minsky
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029.”
Ray Kurzweil
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.”
Stephen Hawking
“AI is the new electricity.”
Andrew Ng
“There's nothing artificial about AI. It's inspired by people, it's created by people, and most importantly it impacts people.”
Fei-Fei Li
“AI is one of the most important things humanity is working on. It is more profound than electricity or fire.”
Sundar Pichai
“Every company is now a software company.”
Satya Nadella
“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
Nathaniel Borenstein
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
Rich Cook
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Douglas Adams
“Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Douglas Adams
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Toffler
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
John Culkin
“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
Steve Jobs
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
Bill Gates
“Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Developers, developers, developers!”
Steve Ballmer
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Alan Turing