Computer Quotes - Page 29

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

I can barely turn on my computer!

Computers will be the death of us all.

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots - where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.

I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

I'm certainly not computer savvy, at all. I joined Twitter kicking and screaming, and very reluctantly.

Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.

We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities.

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

I don't even go on the computer. Don't anybody around me get on the computer.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike!