Computer Quotes - Page 28

• The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

  Martin Gardner

  Breeding, Mathematician

  Martin Gardner (1961). “The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection”

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• These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Common Sense, Trying

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1973). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

  Eugene Wigner

  Nice, Situation, Knows

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• Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

  Seymour Papert

  Classroom, Absurd, Changed

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• In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Challenges, Intellectual, Culture

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• There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.

  Michael Jackson

  Machines, World, Requirements

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• The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Law, Firsts, Problem

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• Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.

  Boy George

  Fun, Nice, Careers

  "The Very Good Boy George". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2014.

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• I can write anything and just put it in a zine, and then it's out there. It is like blogging but on paper. It is what I started to do before the computers were all popular.

  Mark Gonzales

  Writing, Zines, Paper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.

  D.A. Wallach

  Creativity, Challenges, Lazy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

  Woody Allen

  Gadgets, Stuff, Rebellion

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

  Martine Epoque

  Perseverance, Strong, Technology

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

  Marge Piercy

  Snakes, Two, Dancing

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• Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

  Bill Gates

  Games, People, Waste

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• The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

  Phil Donahue

  Memories, Radio, Youth

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• The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

  Alan Kay

  Ideas, Instruments, Music Is

  "Face to Face: Alan Kay Still Waiting for the Revolution". Interview with Lars Kongshem, www.scholastic.com. April/May 2003.

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• Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Men, Vices, Should

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• Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Years, Three, Today

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Needs, Information

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• I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

  Alan Kay

  Training, Degrees, Java

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have a real impetus when I'm sitting at my computer. Now that I know what it's like to get to bring characters and their stories to fruition, I'm addicted. I'm a junkie. I want more.

  Coley Sohn

  Real, Character, Hands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings.

  Ralph Nader

  Real, Vocabulary, Games

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Real, Life Is, Happenings

  "Interview with Opposition Leader Gabriel 'We Have Much to Thank Grass For'". Interview with Konstantin von Hammerstein and Christoph Hickmann, www.spiegel.de. April 16, 2012.

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