Computer Quotes - page 24

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying. (Tom Chatfield)
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. View quote
Tony Kushner
Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of over-trusting what mathematics or computer scientists tell us to do, without questioning it, too much faith in the magical power of analysis. View quote
Hannah Fry
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now. View quote
Helen Fielding
The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other. View quote
Channing Tatum
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing? View quote
Charles Yu
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. View quote
Ernest Klein
Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it. View quote
Bill Joy
What's your personal computer, anyways Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person. View quote
Bill Joy
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'. View quote
Bjarke Ingels
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer. (Vince Vaughn)
In the past there were many things only humans could do. But now robots and computers are catching up, and may soon outperform humans in most tasks. True, computers function very differently from humans, and it seems unlikely that computers will become humanlike any time soon. In particular, it doesn't seem that computers are about to gain consciousness and start experiencing emotions and sensations. Over the past half century there has been an immense advance in computer intelligence, but there has been exactly zero advance in computer consciousness. As far as we know, computers in 2016 are no more conscious than their prototypes in the 1950s. However, we are on the brink of a momentous revolution. Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. View quote
Yuval Noah Harari
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do. View quote
Gareth Bale
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability. View quote
Graham Joyce
An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die. View quote
Darynda Jones
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. View quote
David Duchovny
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. View quote
David Duchovny
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets. View quote
David Nicholls
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something. View quote
David Nicholls
Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data. (Alex Berenson)
The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch. View quote
J.R. Ward
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age. View quote
Joe Cocker
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. View quote
Joshua Foer