Computers Quotes · Page 75

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

— Eric S. Raymond

That awkward moment when your mom sits down next to you while you're on the computer

— Rashida Rowe

At Wimbledon there is a golf putting machine to play on in the locker room.

— Tim Henman

Red light, green light. One, two, three. Look mean and got my machine. Cried, and I tried to hit you, please.

— Ghostface Killah

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can…

— Freeman Dyson

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

— Colleen Ballinger

My dad had a job in computers, we didn't really have any money, we weren't affluent, but we were fine.

— CMAT

Few machine guns close, we could squeeze all three. Be a cold day in hell fore they creep on me.

— Nas

The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring -…

— Frederick Lenz

A man asks a trainer in the gym: "I want 2 impress that beautiful girl , which machine can I use?" Trainer…

— Danish

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer…

— Maggie Shipstead

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't…

— Greg Lynn

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to…

— Davy Rothbart

“There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you…

— Ken Blanchard

“White supremacy is a crime and a lie, but it's also a machine that generates meaning. This existential gift, as much as…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye…

— Thomas Carlyle

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings…

— Ellen Ullman

“My father's boots went ahead. His boots were to me as unique and familiar, as much an index to himself, as his…

— Alice Munro

In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight -…

— Lee Ranaldo

“A moth is such a simple machine in the animal world - the go-kart to the modern car - and it takes…

— Poppy Adams

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip…

— Charlie Brooker

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what…

— Umberto Eco

It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have…

— Isaac Asimov

Love is not a thing that can be made by machine. But it a thing that can be cultivated by care.

— Tahj Wilson

Its not bad to be a dumb¦ half of the world is dependent on a machine with zero IQ.. !

— Ritu Ghatourey

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

— William Strunk, Jr

I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

— Cory Arcangel

“No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.”

— Anonymous

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

— David Gelernter

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

— Jaclyn Moriarty

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

— John Warren Kindt

I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address.

— Willie Geist

“Maybe there's a computer down in the basement," she said, "and we need to keep punching the numbers in.”

— Peter Clines

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

— Gordon Bell

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

— Clive Thompson

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

— Colin Greenwood

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

— Oscar Wilde

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

— Ellen Ochoa

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

— Claude Shannon