Computer Quotes - Page 27

• Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

  Daniel Craig

  Looks, Internet, Things To Do

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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• We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...

  Simon Pegg

  Stars, War, School

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

  Girl Talk

  Rapper, Criminals, Albums

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

  Girl Talk

  Dad, Mp3, Trying

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Mean, Creating, Growing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

  Lily Allen

  Idols, People, Bullshit

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

  Xavier Dolan

  Home, Writing, Aunt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

  Michel Ocelot

  Beautiful, Digital, Helping

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. And then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Typewriters, Feet

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Thinking, Television

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Editing, Tools

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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• I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.

  Ben Shneiderman

  People, Feelings, Instruction

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• The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

  P. J. Plauger

  Stupid, Two, Digital

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• Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse

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• Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

  Mary Douglas

  Vision, World, Program

  Mary Douglas (1986). “How Institutions Think”, p.92, Syracuse University Press

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• A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

  Fred Brooks

  Men, Dumb, Syntax

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• ...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

  Stephen Fry

  Games, People, Television

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.176, Random House

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• This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

  Stephen Fry

  Spiritual, Wall, Children

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

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• The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.

  Mary Schmich

  Phones, Cells, Skills

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• Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

  Stewart Brand

  Humans, Convenient

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• If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

  Thomas Dolby

  Art, Guitar, Years

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• If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.

  Maurice Sendak

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

  David Gelernter

  Scientist, Crave

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• If computers take over, it will serve us right.

  Alistair Cooke

  Over It, Ifs

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