Computer Quotes - Page 14

• I, for one, am not nearly as engaged when I'm looking at something that's been completely drawn up on a computer that replaces anything that's in real time and real space. It just engages me all the less, rather than all the more.

  Ron Perlman

  Real, Space, Engaged

  Source: collider.com

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• Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Sex, Romance

  "Isaacson's Steve Jobs Rages, Weeps, Adds Sex to Tech: Interview". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Son, Years, Lucky

  Source: variety.com

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• I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Hands

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

  Robin Williams

  Games, Play, Long

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Awards, Sweden

  Milton Friedman's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1976.

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• If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.

  Richard Branson

  Cutting, Phones, Internet Access

  "Sir Richard Branson: The full interview". "Marketplace" with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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• You can create art and beauty with a computer.

  Steven Levy

  Art

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• There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Facts, Internet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

  Frank Miller

  Technology, Thinking, Skills

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• Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

  Hal Abelson

  Thinking, Essence, Tools

  "Overview and Introduction to Lisp". Introduction of video of lectures on the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", ocw.mit.edu. 1986.

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• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug

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• I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

  Chris Martin

  Writing, Giving, Balls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Encounters, Development

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• In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Errors, Design

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• Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

  Martin Rees

  Achieve, Claims, Capability

  "What the future looks like" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

  Marc Benioff

  Jobs, Real, Heart

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• People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

  Dave Barry

  Mean, People, Use

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• By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Profound, Brain, Body

  "10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil". content.time.com. December 06, 2010.

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• The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

  Chad Hurley

  Wall, Phones, Ipads

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• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Jobs, Careers, Pay

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Art, Morning, Crazy

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• I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

  Freeman Dyson

  Path, Becoming, Bright Future

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

  Mark Boal

  Writing, Laptops

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