Computer Quotes - Page 37

• Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Reading, Night, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Couple, Cutting, Two

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• I don't get how people want to read books on computers because it must be really bad for your eyes, for starters. I love the smell of books and I just like the whole experience of it. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I like that whole experience - it's the same as I like putting on a record or a CD and waiting for it to arrive or buying it and waiting to listen to it in full.

  Kate Nash

  Book, Eye, Cds

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• I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

  William Shatner

  Technology, Fire, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

  Jeff Wall

  Technology, Hands, Digital

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• I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

  Leon Golub

  Photography, Trying, Connections

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• We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Reality, Able, Virtual Reality

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• What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Art, Stars, Hands

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• So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now!

  Brian Regan

  Class, People, Boards

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• Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

  Peter Norvig

  Memories, Style, Special

  Peter Norvig (2014). “Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp”, p.9, Morgan Kaufmann

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, California

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• I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.

  Christian Finnegan

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That's true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited.

  Christian Finnegan

  Years, People, Guy

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• When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

  Chris Hardwick

  Latin, School, Going Away

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• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  J. B. Smoove

  Smart, Book, People

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• Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.

  Andy Grundberg

  Reality, Years, Cameras

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• I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

  Loretta Lux

  Nice, Suits, Painting

  "Loretta Lux's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.

  Loretta Lux

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• ... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

  Jay Maisel

  Lying, Trying, Photoshop

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• ... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

  Lev Manovich

  Photography, Technology, Reality

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• ... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.

  Lev Manovich

  Reality, Fake, Cameras

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• Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.

  Pedro Meyer

  Photography, Lying, Reality

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• The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

  Martha Rosler

  Couple, Hands, Photograph

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• Though the computer can correct anything, a bad image is a bad image.

  Charles Traub

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• I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Want, Whole

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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