Computer Quotes

"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries"

Thomas Frank, Author

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"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"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"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, Politician

"And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"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"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"

Ronald Graham, Mathematician

"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill"

Christopher Plummer, Actor

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"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"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them"

Rosamund Pike, Actress

"In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"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"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer"

Robert Patterson

"It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills"

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity

"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly"

Mary Garden

"Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist"

Steven Levy, Journalist

"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous"

Robert Shea, Author

"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm"

Dorothy Denning, Public Servant

"I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art"

Steven Levy, Journalist

"I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap"

Miroslav Vitous, Musician

"It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day"

Dan Brown, Author

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