Computer Quotes - page 40

In today's computer science curricula ... almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and generally trivial fragments of "optimization of logic design" (Marvin Minsky)
But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer. View quote
Andy Serkis
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer. View quote
Bill Nighy
What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen. View quote
Frank Miller
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. View quote
Neil Gaiman
When it comes to computer games, many academics seem to be one step down from judges in their lack of engagement with the real world. View quote
Richard Bartle
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without her when she's gone. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. View quote
Eddie Vedder
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize? (Buzz Aldrin)
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer? View quote
Temple Grandin
In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes. View quote
Temple Grandin
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. View quote
Sydney Brenner
Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer. View quote
Ricky Gervais
It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world. View quote
Lily Cole
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer. View quote
Alicia Witt
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too. View quote
Jimmy Carter
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. View quote
Erica Jong
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs. (St. Vincent (musician))
Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)
Were God to give us, at last, the cable, or patch-cord that links the Sun to the Climate System it would have on the solar end a banana plug, and on the other, where it hooks into the Earth-in ways we don't yet know-a Hydra-like tangle of multiple 24-pin parallel computer connectors. It is surely at this end of the problem where the greatest challenges lie. View quote
John A. Eddy
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story. View quote
Kevin Spacey
The computer, with its multiplying forums for spontaneous free expression from e-mail to listservs and blogs, has increased facility and fluency of language but degraded sensitivity to the individual word and reduced respect for organized argument, the process of deductive reasoning. View quote
Camille Paglia