Computer Quotes - Page 25

• There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

  Mantak Chia

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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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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• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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• Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

  Robert Burchfield

  Errors, Miraculous, Users

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Wife, Clue

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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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• 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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• It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

  Bill Budge

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

  St. Vincent

  Creative, Ears, Way

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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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• Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

  Jon Scieszka

  Reading, Book, Kids

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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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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• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Meaningful, Thinking, Journey

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• My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Two, Labs

  "Increasing STEM Education for Our Nation’s Women" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2014.

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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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• Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

  Charlie Munger

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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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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• The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

  Jimmy Wales

  Done, World, Speech

  "Why Wikipedia went down at midnight". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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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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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, What Matters, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

  Paul Putner

  Creating, Use, Want

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