Computer Quotes - Page 29

• According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

  Hans von Storch

  Wind, Germany, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Guy, Joy

  Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.

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• Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.

  Frank Pearce

  Exercise, Media, Games

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

  Paul Lutus

  Technology, Years, Sophisticated

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  Michael Birch

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Thinking, Men, Sugar

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• The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

  Hal Finney

  People, Tools, Used

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• Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

  Robin Wells

  Writing, Ideas, Soup

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• Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Sexy, Active, Cant

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• It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers
  never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given
  commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

  Brad Templeton

  Command Not, Law, People

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• Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

  Rupert Giles

  Nice, Elements, Slayer

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• Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

  John von Neumann

  Thinking, Humans

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• I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

  Donald Knuth

  People, Trying, Study

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• I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Discipline, Algorithms

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• It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Talking, Challenges, Trying

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• Computers will be the death of us all.

  Ira Carmen

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Guy, Changed, Savvy

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.

  Paul Bettany

  Fighting, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.

  Esther Dyson

  Eye, Giving, Together

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• Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Thanks, States, Disorganization

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• My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Problem, Worst, Understand Me

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

  Cory Doctorow

  Helping, Remember, Has Beens

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Character, Evil, Drs

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• Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

  Max Lerner

  Humble, Men, Humanity

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