Computer Quotes - Page 24

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

I, from the luxury of my laptop computer, can summon extraordinary bargains on everything I want, and I can also move my savings anywhere. This ability to choose more broadly and to switch more easily is the central fact of modern economic life.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

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.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Computer scientists stand on each other's feet.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that we make with artists. And it's all synchronized.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.