Computer Quote by Dave Barry Download Open image “Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.” — Dave Barry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer Crash Data Databases Information Loses Memories Memory Our memories Technology
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank. — John Cale Copy Share Image
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money. — Dave Barry 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
