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Computer Quotes
"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."
8
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."
8
"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
8
"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
8
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
8
"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."
8
"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."
8
"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."
8
"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
8
"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
8
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
7
"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."
7
"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."
7
"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."
7
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
7
"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
7
"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
7
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."
7
"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."
7
"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."
7
"At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau."
7
"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field."
7
"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."
7
"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."
7
"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground."
7
"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."
7
"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
7
"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."
7
"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."
7
"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
7
"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."
7
"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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