A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
I think digital media is a valid tool, one that has it's own strengths and weaknesses. So often I see people dismissing… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I auditioned for 'The Lord of the Rings,' I auditioned for the part of Sam, and I didn't get very far... they… — Aron Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I'd shower and go right back to the… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity,… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
This is what I call the "cosmological problem" of science. Science has the instrumental function that has given us computers and so… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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