Computer Quotes - Page 32

• Computers double their performance every month.

  Stephen Hawking

  Months, Performances

  "Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

  Edward Yourdon

  Home, Luxury, Eccentric

  Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

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• I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

  John von Neumann

  Thinking, Important, Bombs

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• In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

  John Lasseter

  Memories, Details, Add

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• Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

  James Gurney

  Titles, Reason, Ifs

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

  Rupert Giles

  Book, Smell, Gone

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• Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Parent, Fertility

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• Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, Opposites, People

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mistake, Machines, Done

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• A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

  Sam Walton

  Dimes

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• [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Bored, Being Bored

  Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books

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• I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages. Most of the time, I feel better and happier and I learn more when I'm not on my phone, all day, or a computer, or an iPad.

  Jane Levy

  Feel Better, Phones, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Cutting, Zines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Memories, Numbers

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.

  Scoot McNairy

  Hands, Black, Want

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

  Barbara Hulanicki

  Drawing, Creative, Miami

  "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Mean, People, Goal

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• Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).

  Seth Godin

  People, Laptops, Internet

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• I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Data, World

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• And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

  Maxwell Frazer

  Apology, Technology, Thinking

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• For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.

  Robert David Steele

  Teenager, Doors, Drunk

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