Computer Quotes - Page 17

• Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.

  Richard Branson

  Cutting, Phones, Internet Access

  "Sir Richard Branson: The full interview". "Marketplace" with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• You can create art and beauty with a computer.

  Steven Levy

  Art

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• What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

  Frank Miller

  Technology, Thinking, Skills

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• Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

  Hal Abelson

  Thinking, Essence, Tools

  "Overview and Introduction to Lisp". Introduction of video of lectures on the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", ocw.mit.edu. 1986.

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• I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

  Chris Martin

  Writing, Giving, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Encounters, Development

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

  Dave Barry

  Mean, People, Use

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• By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Profound, Brain, Body

  "10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil". content.time.com. December 06, 2010.

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• The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

  Chad Hurley

  Wall, Phones, Ipads

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• I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Art, Morning, Crazy

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• I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

  Freeman Dyson

  Path, Becoming, Bright Future

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Welcome, Excuse, Get Away

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• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  Maira Kalman

  Book, Light, Fax Machines

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• I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  School, Phones, Cells

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• That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Thinking, Cameras

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• Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

  Robert Mankoff

  Voice, Style, Columns

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Running, Art, Dad

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Class, Skills

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• People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Attachment, People

  "Sherry Turkle: 'We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.

  Yoseob

  Games, Play, Want

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• I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

  JWoww

  Art, Jobs, Queens

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• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Modern Life, Defense

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• Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

  Russell Baker

  Wall, Home, Years

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