A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes… — P. J. Plauger Copy Share Image
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby. — Tycho Copy Share Image
...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it… — Ken Olsen Copy Share Image
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. — David E. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's nice to be able to directly speak to fans and thank them for their support. The only time that it can… — Claire Holt Copy Share Image
When I write for an album, I'll always have about 30 different types of instrument around me. I set them up in… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to… — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer,… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly… — John Searle Copy Share Image
No greater invention was ever devised for creating the delusion of productivity than the personal computer, except for religion. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email. — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
