Computer Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
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Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
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The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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I never use a computer.
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That's our biggest concern right now is that we did have everybody's personal information stored on our computers.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Programs like ACE’s Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures.
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No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.
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Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
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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.
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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.
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
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To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
