Computer Quotes
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We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
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Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.
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The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.
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I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.
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I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?
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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
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While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.
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People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
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We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.
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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
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It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.
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The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.
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I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.
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To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable.
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It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.
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Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
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God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
