Computer Quotes - Page 32

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.

History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root as a toy, got Digital Equipment Corporation. Kodak missed the boat for a long time on digital imaging. Sony was slow to get MP3 technology. Microsoft doesn't know what to do with open source software. And so on.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us be called animators because we were working on computers. And we were some of the first people ever to make 3-D computer animation.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Though the computer can correct anything, a bad image is a bad image.

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

We live in an age now where people go to the movies and, even the biggest movies are in the theaters six, eight weeks and then gone. And then for the rest of time now people are watching them on their phones, or computers, or TVs. And that's how the films gonna live.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.