"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."

Computer, Computers, Information, Nonsense, Numbers

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."

Exlpore more Computer quotes

"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Computer, Computers, Fact, Man

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Computer, Word

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

Computer, Disney, Film, Now

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

Vinton Cerf, American Inventor

Computer, Computers, Time, December, End

"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."

Steve Case, American Businessman

Computer, Computers, People, Problems, Software

"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."

Kevin Kelly, American Editor

Computer, Evolution, Fact, Will

"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."

Jason Schwartzman, American Actor

Computer, Computers, People, Communication

"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."

Ted Nelson, American Author

Computer, Computers, Information, Nonsense, Numbers

"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Computer, Computers, Day

"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."

Sinbad, American Comedian

Computer, First

Explore more quotes by Ted Nelson

"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."

Creativity, Ideas, Obvious, Trying

"The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever."

Money, Ideas, Printing, Space

"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."

Computer, Computers, Information, Nonsense, Numbers

"The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others."

Creativity, Idea, Prison, Spring

"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field."

Computer, Decisions

"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."

Computer, School

"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."

Technology, Project

"I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."

Time, Thought

"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."

Computer, Computers

"What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."

Content, Now, World