Computers Quotes · Page 37

“The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't”

— Emma Iadanza

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

— Karl Marx

“ESG demands that businesses prove they're not just profit machines but responsible stakeholders.”

— Gun Gun Febrianza

Breaking Bad has taught me the hazards of bringing my porn-filled computer anywhere near a giant magnet.

— Anonymous

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

— Ted Waitt

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

— Gary Sloan

Don't ask me again is my favorite computer button that I wish was also a real life button.

— Lenny

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

— James Marcus

I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends…

— Jon Heder

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

Beauty is only skin deep. The goth girl at the beach who wears layers of clothing, that skinny guy at the computer…

— Anonymous

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and…

— Edward Dahlberg

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to…

— Don Murray

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a…

— Adam Curtis

Members of Congress are less beasts of accumulating burden than computational machines designed to win re-election. Their sense of their own political…

— Jacob Weisberg

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to…

— John Gruber

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.…

— Charles Jencks

Seem to be getting dumber and dumber. I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically…

— Hank Moody

“move from legacy architecture that is pretty pervasive today and allows them to get into the new world of elastic computing,” said…

— Anonymous

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery…

— H. G. Wells

If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values,…

— David Hanson

“You know on crime shows where they put a sample in a machine, push a button, and it magics them up a…

— Bella Bancroft

Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.…

— Seymour Papert

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

— Bob Kahn

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There is a slight difference between collecting fifty wine labels and collecting fifty pinball machines.”

— Haruki Murakami

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

— Barry Barish

I have to play really loose versions of songs I've made on the computer.

— Kyle Parker

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

— Erich Fromm

This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.

— Itzhak Perlman

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

— Danielle Berry

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

— Anonymous

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

— Cher

“You asked the impossible of a machine and the machine complied.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

— Ueli Steck

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding