Computer Quotes - Page 11

• Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, Emotional, Data

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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.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Portraits, Machines

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• They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

  Emil Ruder

  Book, Design, Way

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• They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.

  Emil Ruder

  Work, Book, Ideas

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• A logo doesn't need to say what a company does. Restaurant logos don't need to show food, dentist logos don't need to show teeth, furniture store logos don't need to show furniture. Just because it's relevant, doesn't mean you can't do better. The Mercedes logo isn't a car. The Virgin Atlantic logo isn't an airplane. The Apple logo isn't a computer. Etc.

  David Airey

  Airplane, Mean, Apples

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• You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Technology, Information, Precision

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• We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Skulls, Space

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

  Pope Francis

  Drama, Men, Idols

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

  John Lasseter

  Attention, Pay, Advantage

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• Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

  Donald Knuth

  Program, Humans, Meant To Be

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• I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

  Dieter Rams

  Hands, Drawing, Stills

  "Dieter Rams at home, 2004" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump

  Tre Cool

  Talking, Smell, People

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• To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.

  John Thain

  Creating Things, Ideas, United States

  "John Thain Admits He Didn't Understand Merrill's Risks" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. October 07, 2009,.

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• Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Paper, Papers, I Can

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• With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Kids, Technology, Needs

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• And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Heart, Phones

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• If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

  Mantak Chia

  Sports, Spiritual, Art

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• As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

  Kate Bush

  Friendship, People, Evening

  "Song: 'Deeper Understanding'". 1989.

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• Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

  Donald Knuth

  Art, Want, Programming

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• I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

  Donald Miller

  Dog, Writing, Sitting

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• If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

  Terry Brooks

  Grateful, Writing, Hands

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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