Computer Quotes - Page 19

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

I'm not very computer savvy.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.

Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers.