Computer Quotes - Page 36

• The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Imagination, Monsters, Asking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.

  Martin Shaw

  Successful, Thinking, Indulge In

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

  Chris Henchy

  Long, Degrees, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Views

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowing, Stuff, Way

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• ... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Technology, Waiting

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• Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, Way, Mazes

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• NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Jobs, Car, Important

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• Computers make people stupid.

  David Gelernter

  Stupid, People

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• You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Tools, Use

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• The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Spatial, Universe

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• A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

  Alan Kay

  Coffee, Machines, Scientist

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• Computers double their performance every month.

  Stephen Hawking

  Months, Performances

  "Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

  John von Neumann

  Thinking, Important, Bombs

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• In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

  John Lasseter

  Memories, Details, Add

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

  Rupert Giles

  Book, Smell, Gone

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• Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, Opposites, People

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• [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Bored, Being Bored

  Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Cutting, Zines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

  Seth Godin

  People, Laptops, Internet

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• Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

  John Maeda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Space

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• What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

  Doyle Brunson

  Kids, Player, Hands

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• Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

  Richard Hamming

  Feet, Scientist

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