Don DeLillo Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Dying, Culture

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

  Don DeLillo

  Air, Computer, Grows

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

• Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

  Don DeLillo

  Belief, Computer, Willing

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Great Jones Street”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

• The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

  Don DeLillo

  Life, Dust, Ordinary

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.305, Pan Macmillan

• There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

  Don DeLillo

  Japan, Quality, Phrases

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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