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• A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Work, Technology, Mind

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• People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Wall, Reality

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• To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

  Alan Cooper

  Rocks, People, Tree

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• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

  Heaven, Software, Hardware

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• I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

  David Tudor

  Sound, Able, Interest

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• I just became one with my browser software.

  Bill Griffith

  Software, Browsers

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• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this," well, that would be enough immortality for me.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Dirty, Mean, Years

  "Introducing a course on calculi" by Edsger Dijkstra, August 30, 1995.

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• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Roberta Williams

  Years, People, Friendly

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• If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

  Edward Tufte

  Power Of Love, Overhead, Powerpoint

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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Civilization

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

  Clifford Stoll

  Classroom

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  A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Motivational Sports, Humorous

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• Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Math, Science

  Foreword to the book "A=B" by Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger, 1996.

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• If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

  Colin Greenwood

  Editing, Looks, Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Data, Omnipotence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Sound, Eras, Corny

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

  Marian McPartland

  House, Risk, Would Be

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Technology, Car

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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• If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

  Robert Sewell

  Java, Garbage, Execution

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• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Garbage, Waste, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

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• Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Classroom, Computer Technology

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• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  Isaac Asimov

  Honesty, Technology, Favourite

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Technology, Computer Literacy, Should

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• Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

  Ted Nelson

  Technology, Use, Fool

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• Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Fundraising, Dating, Fine

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