Computer Quotes

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

  Steve Jobs

  Typewriters, Years, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

  Jon Appleton

  Numbers, Ideas, Musical

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Science, Technology, Mind

  YouTube Channel "Michael Lawrence"/"Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films", www.youtube.com. June 01, 2006.

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• The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Technology, Forever, Hollywood

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Details, Too Much, Problem

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, People, Quality

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a computer program. Then we can send that program or book to companies that specialize in reproducing them and distributing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Home, Writing

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• The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

  Vannevar Bush

  Age, Reliability, World

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Self, Levels

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

  Alan Turing

  Morning, Funny Things, One Day

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• Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Technology, Men

  1963 Speech, 21 May.

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• One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Funny, Humor, Expression

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• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  Adam Osborne

  Mistake, Technology, Thinking

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• To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

  Dave Barry

  Two, Experts, Needs

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

  Shepherd Mead

  Technology, Committees

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• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

  Erykah Badu

  Business, Men, Want

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• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Migration, Stuff

  Heavy Metal Interview, April 1982.

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• Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Believe, People, Classroom

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• One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

  Frank Herbert

  Home, Understanding, Revolution

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Television

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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