Computers Quotes · Page 47

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repair man arrives

— Anonymous

It was like a gumball machine, except instead of gum it was goat pellets. -Miss Kay

— Duck Dynasty

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

— Joichi Ito

I hate when my parents never let me go anywhere and then ask me why I'm always on the computer.

— Tanya Bianco

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

— Reggie Watts

I prefer my real friends over fake humanoids run by computers and true trolls filled with genuine venom.

— Alisyn Camerota

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

— Shai Agassi

I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will…

— Synyster Gates

The rest of the world may devour Japanese hardware - from Honda Civics to Sony Walkmans - but Japanese software, such as…

— David Sheff

Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to…

— Patricia Churchland

Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books.…

— Margaret Heffernan

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine…

— Quincy Jones

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve…

— Alfred Aho

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we…

— Miguel de Icaza

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of…

— Bill Gates

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat…

— Isak Dinesen

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…

— Hal Abelson

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers…

— Geoffrey Hinton

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing…

— Tim Wu

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would…

— C. S. Lewis

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if…

— Justine Bateman

The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols…

— Daniel Crevier

“VON NEUMANN MADE a deal with “the other party” in 1946. The scientists would get the computers, and the military would get…

— George Dyson

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

— Stephen Hillenburg

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

— Satya Nadella

“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.”

— Sarah Tregay

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

— Terry Mosher

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

— Frank Stronach

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

— Paul Dourish

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

— Jeff Beck

“By 1990, only 15 percent of households owned a personal computer, while nearly 30 percent owned an NES.”

— Blake J. Harris

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

— Alexander Payne

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

— John Podhoretz

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

— Mike Birbiglia

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

— Richard Burton

Weapons are the source of death. In every American movie, there are machine guns, whatever.

— Gaspar Noe

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

— Beck

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

— Sherry Turkle

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

— Candice Swanepoel