Computer Quotes
There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.
I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."
Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.
I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.
I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.
The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.
Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.
I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.
With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.
Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.
I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.
I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.
Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
Let us not have a computer psychology that makes us think we know it all. All answers on computers - but no surprises. The challenge of love. God reveals himself through surprises.
I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.
