Computers Quotes · Page 52

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.

— Hristo Stoichkov

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

— Jerry Coleman

At the family factory…if the Mom Machine breaks , the whole place shuts down

— @efiosiugbore

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink…

— George Bernard Shaw

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

— I. F. Stone

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

— Ambrose Bierce

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire…

— Charles Eisenstein

“I turn on the computer to do a cursory search for Ryzhkova. The name pings back thousands of results. Shit. Of course…

— Erika Swyler

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of…

— Mark Walport

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I…

— Mike Duke

There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.

— Temple Grandin

There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but…

— Donald Trump

“If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.”

— Arthur R Marshall

My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for…

— Sara Blakely

“Magnetism also was an influence felt at a distance, and in a stunning anticipation of the idea of universal gravitation, Kepler suggested…

— Carl Sagan

Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense…

— Caroline Knapp

The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought…

— Herbert Wilf

Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from…

— Jacques Barzun

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts…

— Lisa Loeb

“What is a hobby anyway? Where is the line of demarcation between hobbies and ordinary normal pursuits? I have been unable to…

— Aldo Leopold

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

— Annie Leibovitz

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

— Vikas Swarup

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

— Jake Barton

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

— Bella Abzug

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

— Larry Wall

I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

— Samantha Hunt

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

— Robert Orben

“Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.”

— Vincent Collins

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

— George Ade

Any movie that deals with an AI computer voice stands in the long, long shadow of '2001.'

— Leigh Whannell

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

— Daniel Bell

“Anything you can do, but the computer can do it better than you. That's not a skill!”

— Rafaa Khiari

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

— Gottfried Leibniz

We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world.

— Pranav Mistry