Computer Quotes - Page 34

• Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

  Seymour Papert

  Classroom, Absurd, Changed

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• The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Law, Firsts, Problem

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• Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

  Boy George

  Fun, Nice, Careers

  "The Very Good Boy George". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2014.

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• One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

  D.A. Wallach

  Creativity, Challenges, Lazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

  Woody Allen

  Gadgets, Stuff, Rebellion

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

  Bill Gates

  Games, People, Waste

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• The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

  Phil Donahue

  Memories, Radio, Youth

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• Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Men, Vices, Should

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• Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Years, Three, Today

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

  Hans von Storch

  Wind, Germany, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Guy, Joy

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  Michael Birch

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Thinking, Men, Sugar

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• Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

  Robin Wells

  Writing, Ideas, Soup

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• Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Sexy, Active, Cant

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• I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

  Donald Knuth

  People, Trying, Study

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• I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Discipline, Algorithms

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• Computers will be the death of us all.

  Ira Carmen

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.

  Esther Dyson

  Eye, Giving, Together

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• Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Thanks, States, Disorganization

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• For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

  Cory Doctorow

  Helping, Remember, Has Beens

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.

  Emo Philips

  Intelligent, Thinking

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• What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

  Heinz Pagels

  Art, Trying, Giants

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.343, Courier Corporation

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