Computers Quotes · Page 78

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

— Norbert Wiener

“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”

— Frederick P. Brooks

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

— Emma Goldman

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

— Trip Hawkins

“Testing with a CPAP machine revealed it would produce insomnia whenever the pressure was 6 cmH2O or above.”

— Steven Magee

Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

— James Brown

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

— James Magary

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

— Trisha Goddard

“When Gonzalez and Canley were close enough to the machine gun they called for suppressing fire and then stood and hurled grenades.…

— Mark Bowden

“idea models—models that are simple enough to study via mathematics or computers but that nonetheless capture fundamental properties of natural complex systems.”

— Melanie Mitchell

“Aim for a million bucks, you suddenly need a billion. I upgraded my computer, but it wasn't enough. No matter what, it…

— D.B.C. Pierre

“Too many of us treat guns with genial familiarity. Guns should give us the heebie-jeebies. They are killing machines. That is all…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and…

— Freeman Dyson

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes…

— Mitch Lucker

We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help…

— Anonymous

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a…

— Teena Marie

Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent…

— Marion Woodman

“The problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities…

— Kurt Andersen

I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that…

— Larry Ellison

Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the…

— Dan Abnett

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and…

— George Carlin

“Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic…

— Ashlee Vance

The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness…

— Nick Bantock

Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status…

— Brad Listi

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.”

— Donald A. Norman

My computer goes down on me more often than my girlfriend.

— Robert Paul Blumenstein

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

— Camille Paglia

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

— Ernest Cline

“The moon is a stone and the sky is full of deadly hardware, but oh God, how beautiful anyway.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.”

— Luke Harding

Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

— John Galsworthy

The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.

— Donald Trump

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

— Richard Hamming

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

— Herbert Simon

After all- people die, computers crash, relationships end- all we can do is take a deep breath, and reboot.

— Carrie Bradshaw Sex And The City

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

— Bad Bunny

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

— David Mamet

“As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.”

— Doris Lessing

I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

— Matt Tong