Computers Quotes · Page 84

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

— Wendell Berry

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

— Yael Naim

For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

— Vin Diesel

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

— Bill Gates

When we did 'Lion King' it was all drawn and now we use computers to do the work.

— Rob Minkoff

I am not a sportsperson. I used to spend all my time in front of a computer.

— Karthi

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

— Robert Burchfield

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

— Carl Sandburg

I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let…

— John Grant

“What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?”

— Ahmir Questlove Thompson

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

— Bill Gates

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but…

— Seth Lloyd

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

— Denis Lawson

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing…

— William S. Burroughs

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee.…

— Grant Achatz

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of…

— Norbert Wiener

I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to…

— Brenda Laurel

What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve…

— Jef Raskin

The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to…

— Jonathan Zittrain

“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people…

— George Saunders

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed…

— Douglas Rushkoff

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just…

— Art Spiegelman

When I went to see Valentino in Rome, I discovered 120 women in these ateliers who sew $100,000 dresses. There are no…

— Matt Tyrnauer

“A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It is important to use your hands, that is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.”

— Paul Rand

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

— Virginia Woolf

In the end, it's just the nature of the hype machine. There is no in-between in modern football.

— Martin Odegaard

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.

— Che Guevara

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

— B. F. Skinner

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

— Jaron Lanier

“Neither of us are very good at making friends unless we can hide behind computers.”

— Edmond Manning

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

— Jon Kyl

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

— Judy Horacek

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

— Clare Boothe Luce

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

— Eric Schmidt

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

— Alex Kingston

We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

— Twyla Tharp