Computer Quote by Alan Kay Download Open image “The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.” — Alan Kay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Computers Ideas Instruments Music Music is Music making
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you… — Flume Copy Share Image
The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer. — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
