Computer Quotes - Page 31

• I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Japan, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Imagination, Monsters, Asking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.

  Martin Shaw

  Successful, Thinking, Indulge In

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

  Denis O'Hare

  Heart, Phones, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.

  Chris Henchy

  Long, Degrees, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Views

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

  Steve Jobs

  Knowing, Stuff, Way

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• Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Home, Library

  Larry McMurtry (2008). “Books: A Memoir”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• ... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Technology, Waiting

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• Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, Way, Mazes

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• NASCAR does a good job of trying to keep things equal with new rules. We're not allowed to have computers in our cars to tell the crew what's going on. So the only thing you have is the driver, and the driver-crew chief relationship. That's the most important thing.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Jobs, Car, Important

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• I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.

  Carlos Delgado

  Party, Technology, Cigar

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• PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

  Andy Grove

  People, Acronyms, Industry

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• Computers make people stupid.

  David Gelernter

  Stupid, People

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• You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Tools, Use

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• If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Past, Creating, Feelings

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• The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Spatial, Universe

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• A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

  Alan Kay

  Coffee, Machines, Scientist

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• I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers.

  Juliana of the Netherlands

  People

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• Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

  Gordon Bell

  Scientist, Historian, Computing

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• A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

  Edward Teller

  Art, Independent, Hours

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• There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Danger, Genetic Engineering

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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