“I have so many ideas that may perhaps be of some use in time if others more penetrating than I go deeply into them someday.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
IdeasLegacy
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.
“Supposing there were a machine, we might enter it as into a mill. And this granted, we should only find on visiting it, pieces which push one against another, but never anything by which to explain a perception.”
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Artificial IntelligenceConsciousness
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
Blaise Pascal
LearningPersuasion
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
René Descartes
DoubtTruth
“They could never use speech or other signs as we do when placing our thoughts on record for the benefit of others.”
René Descartes
MachinesLanguage
“Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man so imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal.”
Thomas Hobbes
RobotsArtificial Life
“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
Isaac Newton
TruthScience
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
Johannes Kepler
EfficiencyNature
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
Galileo Galilei
LearningHumility
“All men by nature desire to know.”
Aristotle
CuriosityKnowledge
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
Plato
LearningEducation
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
Democritus
ScienceReality
“Nothing can be created out of nothing.”
Lucretius
LogicCreation
“We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!”
Lewis Carroll
DataFunny
“What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?”
Lewis Carroll
DesignUser Experience
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.”
Mary Shelley
KnowledgeEthics
“I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.”
Mary Shelley
Artificial LifeAmbition
“Arithmetical or algebraical calculations are, from their very nature, fixed and determinate.”
Edgar Allan Poe
CalculationLogic
“The Automaton does not invariably win the game. Were the machine a pure machine this would not be the case - it would always win.”
Edgar Allan Poe
MachinesChess
“Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, that was built in such a logical way it ran a hundred years to a day?”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
EngineeringDesign
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
H. G. Wells
PerspectiveFuture
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”
H. G. Wells
AdaptationIntelligence
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
Jules Verne
ScienceNature
“Our first endeavors are purely instinctive promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined.”
Nikola Tesla
ImaginationInvention
“Instruments of torture permitted by the Government to be in daily and nightly use in the streets of London.”
Charles Babbage
NoiseFunny