Computer Quotes - Page 40

• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Engineering, Skills, People

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• Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, People, Marketing

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• I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

  Al Gore

  Growth, Saws

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• The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

  Dave Barry

  Apples, Age, Rama

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• The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

  Colin Greenwood

  Thinking, Innovation, Old And New

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Too Much Information, Filters, Use

  "Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov Doesn’t Have A Cell Phone". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Writing, Hard Times

  "The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters". Interview with Faith Soloway, therumpus.net. October 25, 2010.

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• Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.

  Paul W. K. Rothemund

  Artifacts

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• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Our Relationship, Our Lives, Huge

  "Mackenzie Davis: Girl on Fire" by Logan Sykes, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Thoughtful, Dust

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• Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Done, Monopoly, Make Sense

  Marshall McLuhan, Barrington Nevitt (1972). “Take today; the executive as dropout”, [Don Mills

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• A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

  Henry Markram

  Cells, Drug, Brain

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• It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

  Nick Blaemire

  Writing, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Moving, Thinking, Sight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

  Pattiann Rogers

  White, Space, Silence

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that gives me freedom but also still goes back to the idea of craft.

  Matana Roberts

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have a riff or a motif or a chord progression or a lyric written on a page, it's just a line or a word or something so I always give everything a working title when I'm making a folder.

  Page Hamilton

  Giving, Titles, Lines

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Tasks, Helping

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• The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Powerful, Skills

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• The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Memories, Floating

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• When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Memories, Writing

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• Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Mean, Design

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• The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

  Bill Gates

  People, Roles, World

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