Computers Quotes · Page 203

“A friend of ours encountered this problem with his home-built computer long ago. He wrote a BIOS that used a magic value…

— Niels Ferguson

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

“He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat,…

— Giulio Tononi

“The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better…

— Dan Harris

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic…

— William Gibson

“Not only are the new technologies exponential, digital, and combinatorial, but most of the gains are still ahead of us. In the…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“My milk had burst onto the scene with a vengeance, and eating became the baby’s new vocation. The next two weeks of…

— Ree Drummond

“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause…

— Scott A. Minnich

I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd…

— Jens Lekman

“I am not a machine. For what can a machine know of the smell of wet grass in the morning, or the…

— Bernard Beckett

“Now a business, in my way of thinking, is not a machine. It is a collection of people who are brought together…

— Henry Ford

“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a…

— Steve Grand

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that,…

— Midge Ure

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a…

— Donald Knuth

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or…

— Taylor Steele

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of…

— Stephen King

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this…

— Larry Ellison

Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they…

— Leroy Hood

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

“can barely recall it myself. How much did I suffer? How much pain did I go through? I wish there was a…

— Haruki Murakami

When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,…

— Reyner Banham

“My computer set-up is crazy. I have wireless set up on my iMac, aimed at a router, which itself is perfectly angled…

— Jarod Kintz

Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm…

— Guy Kawasaki

“But human life is so darn complicated that the hardware and software very often get confused about who’s in charge. Fight? Run?…

— Carl Alasko Ph. D

“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.…

— Cormac McCarthy

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from…

— Jacques Barzun

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought…

— Herbert Wilf

Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“What is a hobby anyway? Where is the line of demarcation between hobbies and ordinary normal pursuits? I have been unable to…

— Aldo Leopold

“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted…

— Dexter Palmer

“When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be…

— Bertrand Russell

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts…

— Lisa Loeb

A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got…

— Gilbert Arenas

Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time,…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It…

— Sherry Turkle

I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so…

— Rosalind Picard

“Radically better software robustness and productivity are to be had only by moving up a level, and making programs by the composition…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr