Computer Quotes - Page 25

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

You can't trust the internet.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

That computer was made in Alabama

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them.

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.