Computer Quotes
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.
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 time Algol was invented.
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
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 when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.
It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
I don't have time, I watch movies, or shows people are talking about. Television is the medium I use the least; I'd rather use my computer, iPhone or iPad.
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?
A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.
Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.
I don't know who's running IMDB. It could be computers. I'd like to talk to someone from IMDB.
The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.
I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.
Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!
Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.
Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.
Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.
I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.
You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.
Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
