Computer Quotes

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

There's no other product that changes function like the computer.

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

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

I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

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

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.