Computer Quotes
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iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
Steve Jobs
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Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
Scott Adams
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
Seth Lloyd
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
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I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.
Eef Barzelay
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Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?
Scott McNealy
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[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.
Mikko Hypponen
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The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
Terence McKenna
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The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
Norman Foster
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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.
Haruki Murakami
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I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
Ray Bradbury
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This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Michael Crichton
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I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
Steve Mann
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I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
Ray Bradbury
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It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
Nick Blaemire
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The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
Evan Esar
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You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.
Miguel Nicolelis
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Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.
Steve Chen
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.
William Gibson
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
Bill Gates
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No, I consider myself computer illiterate.
Casper Van Dien
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
Hayao Miyazaki
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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