Computers Quotes · Page 30

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

— John Warren Kindt

I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which…

— Dziga Vertov

Instead of doing my homework; I like to stay on the computer and worry about how much homework I have to do.

— Anonymous

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

— Piers Corbyn

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

— Agnes Varda

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

— Richard Grenell

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

— Ken Olsen

“I came out of the bathroom naked this morning as the computer was ringing and Meryl and Tony appeared via Skype.”

— Robert Bryndza

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture…

— Questlove

My dad used to build computers for the U.S. government, for military intelligence. So he always had computers around the house.

— Randy Pitchford

“People are human, not some machine we can control. Main rule-nya: jangan jadiin differences itu alasan untuk ngeluarin emosi dan starting a…

— Ika Natassa

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years…

— David Wilkerson

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it…

— Vladimir Kramnik

If we don't figure out a way to have secure, connected healthcare, or connectivity and computing, we won't have that industry develop.

— Steve Mollenkopf

“The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again.…

— Ernst Jünger

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is…

— Russell Smith

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,…

— Clarence John Laughlin

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the…

— Jaron Lanier

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back…

— Jill Abramson

“want relationships to work like an ATM. I give to others, and they spit out exactly what I request. Instead, it’s more…

— Erin Davis

“Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I’d taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty…

— John Green

I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is…

— Johannes Kepler

“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to…

— Larry McMurtry

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

— Raveena Tandon

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

— Bobby Fischer

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

— Lee DeWyze

“Computer, can you translate the signs he made?” “Yes. Here is what Dr. Holtz signed: ‘I am being murdered—’ ”

— Stuart Gibbs

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

— Konrad Zuse

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

— Uma Thurman

“It seems there is nothing I cannot find out from my oracle, the computer.”

— Laurie Viera Rigler

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

— Jef Raskin

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

— Chris Prentiss

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

— John Paul Caponigro

Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

— Adam C. Engst

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

— Bill Nighy

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

— Scott Adams

“Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers--it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen.”

— Piper Kerman

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

— Keith Olbermann