William J. Mitchell Quotes

The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

William J. Mitchell

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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's still not the point. The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people's information with a single warrant.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• I can barely turn on my computer!

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Computer
  • I Can
  • Turn

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

  

  Feist
  • Reality
  • Information

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Business
  • Information
  • Data

• I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Painter
  • Related
  • Portrait

• There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Books
  • Information
  • Build

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • Information
  • Wealth

• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Time
  • Single
  • Moment

• I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Value

• If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • She
  • Woman
  • Intellectual

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Water
  • Evil
  • Like

• There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed.... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Dog
  • Race

• I've gotta say that there's very little that I miss about being a beast, if I'm being totally honest. It's just not a fun experience to go through.

  

  Sendhil Ramamurthy
  • Fun
  • Missing
  • Honest

• In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.

  

  Isamu Akasaki
  • Blue
  • Prospect
  • Semiconductors

• The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering, and analyzing images are as essential to the digital artist as brushes and pigments to a painter.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Information
  • Computer
  • Painter