Computer Quotes - Page 33

• Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.

  Mark Pesce

  Technology, Apples, Trying

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• Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

  John Maeda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Space

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• And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.

  Ward Cunningham

  Progress, Trying, Tomorrow

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Real, Self, Filters

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• What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

  Doyle Brunson

  Kids, Player, Hands

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• The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

  Adam Rifkin

  Cat, Reset Button, Buttons

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• Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

  Richard Hamming

  Feet, Scientist

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• Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.

  Fred Rogers

  Teacher, Children, Technology

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• When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Keys, Magic

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• I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.

  Edward Snowden

  Addresses, Pages, Internet

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• It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

  Eric Schmidt

  Car, Bugs

  " Google's Schmidt: It's A Bug That Cars Were Invented Before Computers" by MG Siegler, techcrunch.com. September 28, 2010.

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• My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

  Brian Grazer

  Real, Creative, Curiosity

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• If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, One Day, Done

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• I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

  Jef Raskin

  Confusion, Design, Mind

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• Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."
  And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house.
  And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

  Steve Wozniak

  Dad, School, House

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• I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

  John von Neumann

  Numbers, People, Tea

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• When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

  Alan Perlis

  Compassion, Students, Graduates

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• Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Silly, Writing

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• In an environment where everybody's jersey is up for grabs, like what Joe Schmidt is currently doing with Ireland in rugby, a massive competitive environment is created every night at training, every day in the gym and every day, believe it or not, in the tactical computer room.

  Brian Cody

  Believe, Night, Training

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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• In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Years, Twenties, Boards

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• Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

  Ted Nelson

  "The curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1995.

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• Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.

  Richard Karn

  Country, Real, Hype

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• The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

  Dick Morris

  Past, Government, Japan

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• Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.

  John Stossel

  Real, Cancer, Moving

  "Arrogant Conceit". townhall.com. December 24, 2008.

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