Computer Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Girl, Boys, Technology

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• In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Men, Engineering, Balance

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• We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?

  T.C. Boyle

  Book, Knowing, Space

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• I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Writing, Tools

  Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Revolution, Paradigm

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• I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Watches, Television, Connected

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Google, Exciting, Access

  Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Drawing, Usual, Tools

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Play, Piano, Littles

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Home, School, Kids

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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• When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.

  Chris Hardwick

  Growing Up, Latin, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Focus, Inward, Cost

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• Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Needs, Warning

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• Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Years

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• I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

  Bill Gates

  Way, Revolutionary, Certain

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• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Brain, Age, Machines

  "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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• Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Get Better, Faster, Playstation

  "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, kvpr.org. April 21, 2017.

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• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Problem, Reaching, Stage

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• Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

  Neil Postman

  Revolution, Nonsense, Function

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.156, Vintage

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• The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Use, Macintosh

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• Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dating, Terrific, Ifs

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• I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

  Stockard Channing

  Running, Dating, Online

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• The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

  Kenneth Appel

  Successful, Science, Thinking

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