Computer Quotes - page 18

That is to say that every single book will be magnetized, will be ordered under complicated mathematical clusters, by related subjects, and semantic markers. You will state your questions, or the subject you are interested in, and the computer will find the books for you. Instataneous retrieval brings with it enormous changes in our relation to the history of a subject, because there is a cut-off point in all these systems beond which the previous books are no longer relevant. They have been adequately subsumed in the later ones. You have a completely different way of organsing knowledge-an immensely efficient and in many ways powerfully logical way, but which blocks the essential motion of the hand reaching along a shelf and stumbling on what it did not know was there. When these great knowledge and data-banks, as they are called, are operative there will come a whole change in the way the human mind and eye live with books. (George Steiner)
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. View quote
Ken Olsen
I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty. View quote
Ian McDonald
Computer science research is different from these more traditional disciplines. Philosophically it differs from the physical sciences because it seeks not to discover, explain, or exploit the natural world, but instead to study the properties of machines of human creation. In this it as analogous to mathematics, and indeed the "science" part of computer science is, for the most part mathematical in spirit. But an inevitable aspect of computer science is the creation of computer programs: objects that, though intangible, are subject to commercial exchange. View quote
Dennis Ritchie
The greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance. Evidence for the worldwide fascination with computers is everywhere, from the articles on the financial, and even the front pages of the newspapers, to the difficulties that even the most prestigious universities experience in finding and keeping faculty in computer science. The best professors, instead of teaching bright students, join start-up companies. View quote
Dennis Ritchie
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
You would have to sit at the board and sweat and feel the fear of defeat or the nearness of victory to understand what goes through a player's head ... If you think it's that easy, switch off the computer and try and figure out a few moves on your own. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
Anything unusual that you can produce has quadruple, quintuple the value, precisely because your opponent is likely to do the predictable stuff, which is on a computer. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
India missed the Industrial Revolution; it cannot afford to miss the Computer Revolution. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write. (Kate DiCamillo)
I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software." In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. View quote
Alfred Whitney Griswold
The question becomes, I suppose, one of value. Knowing that the Vision's complete personality/memory/intelligence was downloaded into a computer in Titan (was it Titan? Memory blurs) allowed me to scrape his brain in my VisionQuest story, since everything could be restored with a literal flip of a switch. Should something that can be so easily copied and retrieved be treated as having the same intrinsic value as a human being? Should any of the human Avengers, for instance, ever risk their lives on behalf of the Vision? My vote would be no (as some of you have probably already guessed)-but I would say that even if it were not possible to restore or "save” the Vision in any other way. He is a "toaster.” (2006) View quote
John Byrne
My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
With the emergence of nuclear-missile weaponry, cybernetics, electronics, and computer equipment, any subjective approach to military problems, hare-brained plans, and superficiality can cause irreparable damage. View quote
Matvei Zakharov
I wanted my own computer my whole life. View quote
Steve Wozniak
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. View quote
Steve Wozniak
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. View quote
Steve Wozniak
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen. (Steve Wozniak)
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. View quote
Steve Wozniak
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. View quote
Steve Wozniak
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. View quote
Steve Wozniak
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. View quote
Ray William Johnson