computers

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘computers’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.” -Steven Levy

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  • “Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” -Milton Glaser

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  • “I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis – one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I’m travelling.” -Rick Boucher

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  • “There’s my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.” -Howard Aiken

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  • “The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.” -David Smith

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  • “Today, computers help us making the music. It’s really a tool.” -Yael Naim

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  • “Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we’re marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn’t have to drive to the computer center. We didn’t have $1,000 computers.” -Sam Wyly

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  • “When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.” -Sherman Austin

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  • “I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.” -William Landay

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  • “Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.” -Dixie Carter

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  • “Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.” -Bill Laswell

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  • “That’s the new way – with computers, computers, computers. That’s the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.” -Lennart Nilsson

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  • “I’m looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.” -Perry Farrell

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  • “I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time – the American South in the 1960s and ’70s – when the machine hadn’t completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines – TV, telephone, cars – were still more or less ancillary, and computers were…

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  • “I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I’m working on.” -Clint Black

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  • “I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn’t especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.” -Eric Avery

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  • “Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the ‘conspicuously industrious’ blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.” -Jo Ann Davis

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  • “From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America’s unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.” -George Nethercutt

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  • “Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, ‘toxic’ financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.” -Richard Dooling

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  • “Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we’re becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don’t think the desire for that magic will ever go away.” -Wolfgang…

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  • “Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.” -Mitch…

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  • “So the thing I realized rather gradually – I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things – there’s a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.” -Stephen Wolfram

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  • “There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.” -Dave Winer

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  • “When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.” -Frank Press

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  • “They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.” -Ted Nelson

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  • “People don’t understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.” -Bruce Schneier

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  • “If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.” -Mike Davidson

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  • “I have three brothers and they’re all into computers. They’re all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn’t make 50 cents. I just couldn’t do it.” -Josh Holloway

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  • “I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.” -Carla Bruni

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  • “Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.” -Daniel Greenberg

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  • “I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn’t going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.” -Joseph Kosinski

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  • “Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It’s not really photography.” -Mary Ellen Mark

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  • “So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.” -Thomas Dolby

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  • “Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.” -Roy Romer

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  • “We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.” -Jack Wagner

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  • “We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.” -Mordechai Vanunu

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  • “Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it’s true, it’s very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say… it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.” -Mark Rylance

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  • “Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.” -Greg Egan

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  • “Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.” -Claude Vorilhon

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  • “When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to…

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  • “A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.” -Charles C. Mann

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  • “Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.” -Charles Keating

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  • “We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.” -Nicholas Negroponte

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  • “Well, the big products in electronics in the ’50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.” -Jack Kilby

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  • “One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.” -Jon Postel

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  • “China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.” -Charles Foster Bass

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  • “Over the eons I’ve been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to ‘simplify’ and ‘bring order to’ my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.” -James Fallows

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  • “I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers – which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.” -Harold Ford

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  • “While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.” -Timothy Murphy

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  • “Comic books aren’t nerdy. You’d have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.” -Adam Brody

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  • “My e-mail address is actually my wife’s e-mail address. I actually hate computers.” -Joe Sakic

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  • “People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It’s a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.” -Mstislav Rostropovich

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  • “Computers are scary. They’re nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.” -Wesley Morris

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  • “I like computers. I like the Internet. It’s a tool that can be used. But don’t be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.” -Jerry Brown

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  • “And it’s here and it’s ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I’m committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal – to pound this message home. Now is the time.” -LeVar Burton

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  • “I’ve never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn’t use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me…

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  • “Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.” -Thomas Nagel

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  • “It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.” -Robert B. Laughlin

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  • “Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.” -Taylor Kitsch

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  • “People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.” -Stephen Root

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  • “After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.” -Eric Allin Cornell

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  • “The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.” -Adam Osborne

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  • “What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.” -Seth Lloyd

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  • “Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.” -Ralph Merkle

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  • “It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.” -Berkeley Breathed

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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

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  • “It’s interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!” -Warwick Davis

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  • “Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can’t see them.” -L’Wren Scott

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  • “People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.” -Donald Knuth

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  • “Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people’s privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.” -Darrell Issa

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  • “Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.” -Roberta Williams

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  • “I don’t care how big and fast computers are, they’re not as big and fast as the world.” -Herbert Simon

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  • “We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.” -Jon Porter

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  • “Well, we didn’t have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.” -James Iha

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  • “But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it.” -Jack Vance

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  • “I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.” -Cliff Stearns

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  • “It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.” -Hayao Miyazaki

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  • “But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.” -Debbie Harry

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  • “The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.” -Kirsty Gallacher

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  • “Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.” -Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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  • “A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.” -Scott Weiland

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  • “Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they’ve got computers, too, which is awesome. They’re scary to me.” -David Arquette

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  • “I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.” -Jared Leto

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  • “I’m projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.” -Vinton Cerf

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  • “I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don’t even really watch their TV anymore.” -Busy Philipps

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  • “You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles… there’s a lot of creativity and brain working. There’s a lot to model trains that people don’t realize.” -Gary Coleman

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  • “Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.” -Paul Davies

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  • “From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.” -John Shadegg

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  • “I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they’ll be screened on phones, on computers – on everything.” -Michel Hazanavicius

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  • “You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you’re going to reach but that’s going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.” -Chuck D.

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  • “To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.” -Adlai Stevenson

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  • “One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren’t that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.” -Steve Case

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  • “Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They’ve thought of the steps that you’re going to think of when you’re trying to create your thing. And that’s where the tools get invented to make better art.” -Mike Shinoda

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  • “If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that’s the best of both worlds – and I’ll use those computers!” -Don Bluth

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  • “The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.” -Major Owens

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  • “Your car should drive itself. It’s amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.” -Eric Schmidt

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  • “Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.” -Bill James

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  • “I’ve never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people’s computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I’ve opened email accounts, twice actually, but it’s something I don’t want in my life right now.” -Jhumpa Lahiri

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  • “My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.” -Steve Wozniak

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  • “Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.” -Craig Bruce

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  • “With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.” -Niklas Zennstrom

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  • “The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.” -Alvin Toffler

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  • “I look like a geeky hacker, but I don’t know anything about computers.” -Justin Long

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  • “When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for…

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  • “The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.” -Kevin Kelly

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  • “I’m a very simple person. I don’t use computers.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

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  • “When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.” -Lynn Abbey

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  • “There’s all these ways to instantly communicate – cars, computers, telephone and transportation – and even with all that, it’s so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.” -Jason Schwartzman

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  • “I’m really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don’t want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.” -Ian MacKaye

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  • “I was a ‘Duck Hunt’ and ‘Mario’ guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn’t the only child, so I wasn’t spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn’t have a lot. Also,…

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  • “We’re just into toys, whether it’s motorcycles or race cars or computers. I’ve got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I’ve got the world’s smallest phone. Maybe it’s just because I’m still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?” -Catherine Bell

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  • “Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.” -Prince

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  • “We’ve lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let’s not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.” -Emilio Estevez

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  • “When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.” -Lisa Loeb

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  • “In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.” -Reed Hastings

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  • “Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.” -Philip Emeagwali

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  • “I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it’s actually easier than it was years ago.” -Kevin Mitnick

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  • “It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.” -Bill Budge

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  • “I use many different gadgets connected with computers I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites – of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!”…

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  • “I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world.” -Thom Yorke

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  • “I don’t know anything about computers.” -Adam Carolla

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  • “Beatbullying’s ‘The Big March 2012’ is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to…

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  • “Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.” -James Dyson

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  • “I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.” -Jeff Bezos

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  • “In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel – with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the ‘send’ button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.” -Ray Comfort

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  • “Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!’” -Anna Chlumsky

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  • “The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.” -Fareed Zakaria

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  • “I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other’s company and smell each other on the rump.” -Tre Cool

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  • “We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.” -Tim Berners-Lee

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  • “It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they’ve been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.” -Roy H. Williams

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  • “Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.” -Jaron Lanier

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  • “I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.” -Steve Coogan

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  • “The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out.” -John Hawkes

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  • “There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.” -Stephen Hawking

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  • “Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’” -Peter Drucker

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  • “The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.” -Mark Zuckerberg

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  • “There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‘play’ with them!” -Richard P. Feynman

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  • “Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” -Jimmy Carter

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  • “Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene – but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.” -William Shatner

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  • “Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “I’m interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.” -David Hockney

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  • “That’s what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, ‘Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out’ – or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.” -Jack White

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  • “Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “We’re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.” -Lenny Kravitz

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  • “I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It’s like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.” -Louis…

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  • “Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.” -J. G. Ballard

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  • “Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.” -David Mamet

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  • “Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.” -Jef Raskin

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  • “I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.” -Eugene Jarvis

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  • “Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.” -Ken Olsen

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  • “Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.” -Ray Kurzweil

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  • “I’m too old-fashioned to use a computer. I’m too old-fashioned to use a quill.” -Christopher Plummer

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  • “What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?” -Walter F. Mondale

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  • “What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people’s problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.” -John Warnock

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  • “We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.” -Bill McCollum

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  • “I’m a ’70s mom, and my daughter is a ’90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.” -Florence Henderson

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  • “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.” -Douglas Engelbart

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  • “The internet is not for sissies.” -Paul Vixie

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  • “If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.” -James Hilton

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  • “I’ve tried word processors, but I think I’m too old a dog to use one.” -Dee Brown

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  • “As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.” -Dave Parnas

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  • “What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.” -Dale Dougherty

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  • “Computers make me totally blank out.” -Dalai Lama

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  • “This is what customers pay us for – to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen…

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  • “Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.” -Clifford Stoll

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  • “When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.” -Wietse Venema

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  • “Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else’s patent.” -Miguel de Icaza

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  • “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” -Paul R. Ehrlich

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  • “Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!” -Jonathan Shapiro

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  • “You can’t trust the internet.” -Nicolette Sheridan

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  • “I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn’t stop until she got home.” -George Stephen

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  • “The Internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.” -Jim Clark

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  • “Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.” -Issey Miyake

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  • “Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.” -Larry Ellison

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  • “Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.” -Bob Taft

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  • “I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.” -Jeff Hawkins

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  • “The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money… But we are not going to buy Yahoo!” -Sumner Redstone

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  • “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” -Edsger Dijkstra

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  • “We’re entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.” -Tim O’Reilly

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