Computer Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Emotional, People, Convincing

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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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• Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Littles, Equipment, Knows

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Kids, Games, Video

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• You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

  Timothy Leary

  Drug, Brain, Psychedelic

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• We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, Home, Internet

  "Burt Rutan: Aesthete & Visionary Space Maverick" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Numbers, Fields, Cryptography

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• You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.

  Seth Rogen

  Character, Voice, Different

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

  Robin Williams

  Games, Play, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Awards, Sweden

  Milton Friedman's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1976.

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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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• 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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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Careers, Pay

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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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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• I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

  Mark Boal

  Writing, Laptops

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• Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

  Anita Borg

  Community, Existence, Notion

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• I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

  Mitchel Resnick

  College, Computer Science, Courses

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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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