Computer Quotes
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The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.
— Henry Petroski
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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
— Janet Reno
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This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.
— Scott McNealy
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Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store…
— Sergey Brin
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We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation.
— Patrick Henry
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When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at…
— Jill Abramson
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The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that…
— Jay Leno
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis,…
— Garry Kasparov
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If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer…
— Thomas Pynchon
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It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things…
— George Johnson
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The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances…
— Richard Dawkins
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I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
— David Duchovny
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a…
— Rajneesh
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something…
— David H. Hubel
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Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control…
— John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth
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I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
— Roberta Williams
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
— Martin Fowler
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