Computers Quotes · Page 86

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

— Ambrose Bierce

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

— Vikas Swarup

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

— Annie Leibovitz

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

— Bella Abzug

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

— Jake Barton

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

— Bill Gates

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really…

— Steven Spielberg

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that…

— K. Eric Drexler

I liked hacking into and pirating computer games while in college. One of my favorites was Bethesda's 'Terminator 2029.' So I drove…

— Todd Howard

“He’ll make it beautiful, won’t you?” I asked.Trenton turned on the machine, and then looked at me with a soft expression. “You’re…

— Jamie McGuire

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it…

— Bill Plympton

“Here’s what I’d love to see: A vending machine that dispenses cats for petting on your lunch break. Instead of money, the…

— Jarod Kintz

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I…

— The Rocket Summer

One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.

— Sydney J Harris

My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,…

— Wilder Penfield

To have the opportunity to be creative and clarify the nature of that creativity, there are definitely some long days, some 18-20…

— Devin Townsend

I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with…

— Fred Allen

“They'd come back with stories of machines that handed out money and people who picked up dog shit and put it in…

— Adam Johnson

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well…

— Rose Schneiderman

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a…

— Gary Reilly

In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of startups using computer vision for agriculture or shopping - there are a lot for…

— Andrew Ng

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

— Jon Stewart

When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

— Julianne Moore

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

— Ann McLane Kuster

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

— Dean Devlin

“eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing wield unparalleled power to revolutionize education.”

— Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

— Nicholson Baker

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

— Hristo Stoichkov

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

— Jerry Coleman

At the family factory…if the Mom Machine breaks , the whole place shuts down

— @efiosiugbore

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

— Daniel Bell

“Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!”

— Rafaa Khiari

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

— Gottfried Leibniz

We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world.

— Pranav Mistry

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

— Erykah Badu

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

— Alan Perlis