Computer Quotes - page 47

One would think that agents charged with protecting us from "dirty nukes" would enjoy the same discretionary search authority as patrolman who make traffic stops. In fact, they have less. If a patrolman pulls you over for weaving between lanes, and smells bourbon on your breath, he does not need a warrant to give you a breath test. But if an FBI agent learns that you are a member of a known terrorist group, and that you behaved suspiciously at a flight school, he must jump through bureaucratic hoops of fire to search your laptop computer. (Mark Riebling)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. View quote
Nathaniel Borenstein
Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. View quote
James Berardinelli
Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and shuddered. View quote
Rick Cook
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day. View quote
Dan Brown
[Computer] programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. View quote
Robert J. Marks II
Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it... View quote
Saul Gorn
The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline. View quote
Saul Gorn
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. View quote
Richard Stallman
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool. (Richard Stallman)
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. View quote
Richard Stallman
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time. View quote
Richard Stallman
When we say expanded cinema we actually mean expanded consciousness. Expanded cinema does not mean computer films, video phosphors, atomic light, or spherical projections. Expanded cinema isn't a movie at all: like life it's a process of becoming, man's ongoing historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes. One no longer can specialize in a single discipline and hope truthfully to express a clear picture of its relationships in the environment. This is especially true in the case of the intermedia network of cinema and television, which now functions as nothing less than the nervous system of mankind. View quote
Gene Youngblood
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine. View quote
Wendelin Van Draanen
You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be. View quote
John Travolta
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. View quote
Ben Gibbard
As a result, the topic became – primarily in the USA – prematurely known as ‘computer science' – which, actually, is like referring to surgery as ‘knife science' – and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment. Quod non. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
LISP has been jokingly described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I remember when I got a new device for my computer. I connected it to the landline phone plug(!), and the device called another device and sang a robot love song to it. That made the devices connect, and I could go online and exchange messages. That was one of the most important things that ever happened to me, breaking my isolation. It helped me to reach out to other folks all around the globe. Communication is key in nerd culture. But beware if that communication fails. You can create toxic troll wastelands! Not even robot love songs can help you with that! View quote
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Computer games are embedded in the cultural framework of technological developments. In the study of technological development and creativity, focusing attention on the failure, the error, the breakdown, the malfunction means opening the black box of technology. Studies have convincingly demonstrated that the widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are "left over." However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed. According to Langdon Winner, there is a sense in which all technical activity contains an inherent tendency toward forgetfulness. View quote
Johannes Grenzfurthner