Computers Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image “Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers Entertainment Machines People
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines. — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s -… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin 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
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
