Computer Quotes - Page 24

• I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Crazy, Home, Long

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.

  Tao Lin

  Writing, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).

  Nicholson Baker

  Running, Reading, Ipods

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Men, Astrology

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Black, Dresses

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• We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

  Majel Barrett

  America, United States, Firsts

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

  Bill Cosby

  Wife, Networking, Helping

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• I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

  Charles Bukowski

  Typewriters

  Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.144, Feltrinelli Editore

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• Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, Emotional, Data

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• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

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• I'm bullish on writing. Movies, radio, television, and now digital media - everything was supposed to push us away from text, to video or "back" to speech. First, there's no going back. We're always stumbling forward. Second, writing is invincible. Thirty years ago, we thought we'd all be talking to our computers; instead, we're all typing on our phones.

  Tim Carmody

  Writing, Invincible, Typing

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• ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

  Pope Francis

  Drama, Men, Idols

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.

  John Thain

  Creating Things, Ideas, United States

  "John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. October 07, 2009,.

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• And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

  Kate Bush

  Friendship, People, Evening

  "Song: 'Deeper Understanding'". 1989.

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• Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Want, Programming

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

  I. F. Stone

  Jobs, Giving

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• It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

  Guy Debord

  Children, Reading, Age

  Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.29, Verso

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• As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

  Janet Fitch

  Handwriting, Terrible, Persons

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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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• Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.

  T. Boone Pickens

  News, Use, Headquarters

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". www.politico.com.

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• You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

  Chuck D

  Years, Two, Differences

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 2000.

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