Computers Quotes · Page 53

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

— Erykah Badu

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

— Alan Perlis

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

— Taylor Hawkins

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

— Don DeLillo

Even when I'm acting, I carry my computer around and work on music.

— Seo In-guk

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

— Peter Landin

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

— Robin Williams

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

— Douglas Adams

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat…

— Akio Morita

We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].

— Vladimir Putin

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

— Doug Larson

Happy life with the machines scattered around the room. Look what they made; they made it for me... happy technology!

— DJstanford

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want…

— Howard Rheingold

“Seelie Court,” murmurs Nate. “Sounds familiar. Was it in a computer game?” “Do I look like someone who plays computer games?” A…

— Rachel Morgan

I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or…

— Patrick Collison

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in…

— Ross MacDonald

“When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be…

— Bertrand Russell

“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted…

— Dexter Palmer

Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they…

— Leroy Hood

I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

“can barely recall it myself. How much did I suffer? How much pain did I go through? I wish there was a…

— Haruki Murakami

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this…

— Larry Ellison

Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm…

— Guy Kawasaki

“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.…

— Cormac McCarthy

Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.

— Satoru Iwata

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

— Alan Perlis

I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

— Paris Hilton

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

— Jean Baudrillard

Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.

— Dick Clark

I started with the organ and drums, and I later got into drum machines as a teenager.

— Zaytoven

That fail moment when you press the wrong numbers on the vending machine...

— Anonymous

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

— Andreja Pejic

Tip the valet 100 dollars to stunt. Pulled up in that mean machine, leave it up front.

— Young Jeezy

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

— Tony Kanal

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

— Ellen Ullman

“Internet is, “a giant machine designed to give people what they want.”

— Nir Eyal

In the fields the bodies burning, as the war machine keeps turning.

— Black Sabbath

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

— Frank Peretti

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell