Computer Quotes - Page 13

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  I. F. Stone

  Jobs, Giving

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• And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, Home, Tablets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Doe, Done, Literature

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• There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

  David Parnas

  Groups, Standards, Programmers

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• When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

  Dave Eggers

  Want, Online, Elsewhere

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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• Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

  Paul Buchheit

  Motivation, Giving, Google

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• When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

  Soulja Boy

  Thinking, Technology, Games

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• With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Kids, Technology, Needs

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• Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.

  Tony Vincent

  Mean, Technology, Long

  "A Conversation with singer Tony Vincent: Part Two". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. October 31, 2012.

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• No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

  Dave Grohl

  Thinking, Tape, Analog

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• I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Children, People, Pages

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.

  Edward Frenkel

  Thinking, Ideas, Office

  Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

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• If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

  Dave Gibbons

  Artist, Thinking, Vision

  "Computers draw a new chapter in comics". Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

  Clive Thompson

  Memories, Social, Search Engine

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• I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Understanding, Language, Natural

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Littles, Equipment, Knows

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  People, Focus, Needs

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• If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

  Eminem

  Cds, Pay, Internet

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• A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Mistake, Trying, Friendly

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• Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Numbers, Fields, Cryptography

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• Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one can get an output text which seemingly carries new knowledge. The basic examples are furnished by scientific or technological calculations: general laws plus initial conditions produce predictions, often only after time-consuming and computer-aided work. One can say that the input contains an implicit knowledge which is thereby made explicit.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Law, Games, Peculiar

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• I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that replaces anything that's in real time and real space. It just engages me all the less, rather than all the more.

  Ron Perlman

  Real, Space, Engaged

  Source: collider.com

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• Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Sex, Romance

  "Isaacson's Steve Jobs Rages, Weeps, Adds Sex to Tech: Interview". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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