Computer Systems Quotes - Page 2

• Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.

  Dallas Willard

  Running, Thinking, Choices

  Source: renovare.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

  Dan Wells

  Running, Car, Use

  4 Copy quote

• Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

  Julian Assange

  Track, Over You, Information

  Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange (2012). “Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier”, p.45, Canongate Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?

  Garth Stein

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

  Russell Baker

  News Stories, Modern Life, Defense

  4 Copy quote

• When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Drug, Would Be, Cash

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Would Be, Fuel

  Source: renovare.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

  William Cohen

  Jobs, Lasts, Computer

  4 Copy quote