Computer Quotes - Page 21

• Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

  Mike Godwin

  Roles, Internet, Free Speech

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• Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

  William Cohen

  Jobs, Lasts, Internet

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• It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.

  John Updike

  Book, Smell, Giving

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• The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

  Doron Zeilberger

  Real, Math, Years

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• Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.

  Charles Petzold

  Color, Decision, Different

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• Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

  Lene

  Doe, Dollars, Labs

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• I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

  Douglas Adams

  Programming, Spending, Computer Programming

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

  Eric Topol

  Change, Real, Smartphones

  "New technologies put the patient first" by Lindsay Carlton, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

  Clara Shih

  School, Science, Programming

  "What's the perfect job for you? Ask your five-year-old self" by Jenny Wong and Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Technology, Meditation, Spatial

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• More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

  Clive Thompson

  People, Tools, Mystery

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• It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Cells, Brain

  "Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

  Steve Wozniak

  Dream, Apples, Use

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

  Tom Chatfield

  Men, Machines, Levels

  "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I'm certainly not computer savvy, at all. I joined Twitter kicking and screaming, and very reluctantly.

  Guillermo Diaz

  Kicking, Savvy

  Source: collider.com

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• An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way... An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience.

  Rob Minkoff

  Character, Play, Drawing

  "Director Rob Minkoff Exclusive Interview THE LION KING 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• I feel like we are so used to CGI [computer-generated imagery] and thank god because it is a wonderful tool, but there is an element of everything you are looking at has been created in the comfort of a studio. I want to return to a world where I can celebrate when you are really interacting with the world.

  Larry Fessenden

  Thank God, Elements, World

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• I don't know who's running IMDB. It could be computers. I'd like to talk to someone from IMDB.

  Ken Marino

  Running, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.

  David Macklovitch

  Song, Thinking, Luxury

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• To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on the Internet. There's motivation to sit at home. You don't have to get dressed up, or be social and for those old enough you don't risk DUI charges by drinking at home at the computer.

  Steve Mahoney

  Motivation, Drinking, Home

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• Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody who works in the computer industry is in an industry that didn't exist twenty-five years ago. We are talking on cell phones, and there were no such things. All the people who work for Nextel and so on, those are lost jobs that became found jobs. We are in a constant state of changing, and there are numerous opportunities in a time like this, but people are still going back to the fear.

  Wayne Dyer

  Jobs, Opportunity, Phones

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

  Jon Katz

  Passion, Creativity, Evil

  "Uncle Sam Vs. Mr. Bill?" by Jon Katz, www.wired.com. October 28, 1997.

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