Computer Quotes

• The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Danger

• Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Building
  • Connectors
  • Switches

• Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • God
  • Trying
  • Dream

• This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Cat

• The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.

  

  Dan Burton
  • House
  • Mistake
  • Made

• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I never use a computer.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Use
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematical

• Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Difficult

• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  

  William Wulf
  • Reason
  • Stupidity
  • Committed

• I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Machines
  • Portraits
  • Archeology

• The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

  

  Will Self
  • Action
  • Aesthetics
  • Repetitive

• Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

  

  John Backus
  • Writing
  • Lazy
  • Program

• That's our biggest concern right now is that we did have everybody's personal information stored on our computers.

  

  Paula Jones
  • Information
  • Personal
  • Concern

• No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Computer
  • Revenge
  • Nerd

• Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

  

  George Gilder
  • Grows
  • Faster
  • Programming

• For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Game

• The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.

  

  Ben Shneiderman
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Successful

• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Growing
  • Mean
  • Weird

• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Design

• I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Use
  • Research
  • Computer

• The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Family
  • Hearth
  • Fireplace

• The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

  

  Alan Lomax
  • Mankind
  • Computer
  • Richness

• I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

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