Computers Quotes · Page 226

“Human, you are a machine, an organism, an animal, a primate, an artist, an athlete, a thinker, a sponge, a spirit, a…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“Jacob will tell me later that important people have always kept copies of their letters. He will even tell me about a…

— Esther Emery

I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn't…

— Martin Gore

“Memes can replicate with impressive virulence while leaving swaths of collateral damage—patent medicines and psychic surgery, astrology and satanism, racist myths, superstitions,…

— James Gleick

A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my…

— Richard Quest

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how…

— Douglas Adams

“receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and…

— Walter Isaacson

But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are…

— Hermann Oberth

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people -…

— Larry Ellison

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…

— Danny Hillis

“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan…

— Cathy O'Neil

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but…

— Jon Evans

The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump…

— Marianne Williamson

“The Sovereignty of the United States resides in the people, not in the machines, and it's the people's to take back, if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.'…

— Mannie Fresh

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not…

— Bill Gates

Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has…

— Ray Kurzweil

“He was lounging in a cubicle beside an outdated computer, hands shoved into the pockets of his faded jeans. A wavy lock…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“To know the narrative in advance is to turn yourself into a machine,” the Manager continues. “What makes humans human is precisely…

— David Sedaris

Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by…

— Dan Chiasson

“I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from…

— Lisa Shearin

When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a…

— Oren Etzioni

We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the…

— Sherry Turkle

If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I,…

— Garth Stein

Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of…

— Russell Shorto

“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social,…

— David Amerland

“One can,' said Ernest 'remain unmoved before a cloud as before an automatic ticket machine. I don't like poetry, I don't like…

— Robert Desnos

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the…

— Ray Kurzweil

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both…

— Vaclav Havel

“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at…

— John Rachel

Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very…

— Guy Murchie

The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and…

— Lee Strobel

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always…

— Bruce Willis

“Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“You talking about computer weaknesses?" "Yes. But also human weaknesses." "Meaning what?" "Meaning the types of weaknesses that make humans let down…

— Chris Pavone

One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back…

— Ben Affleck

To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial…

— Brian Christian

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of…

— William Shatner

“And yet the city is not dead: the machines, the engines, the turbines continue to hum and vibrate, every Wheel's cogs are…

— Italo Calvino