Computer Quotes

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We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. — Bill McCollum
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or… — Robert Fogel
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex… — Bill Bryson
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Tom Segalstad
'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest… — Michael Myers
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. — Freeman Dyson
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of… — Richard Lindzen
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and… — Kristen Wilson
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the… — Pope John Paul II
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer, it… — Herman Melville
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the… — Douglas Hofstadter
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the… — Edsger Dijkstra
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. — Peter Landin
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on… — Donald Knuth
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like… — John Prine

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