"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

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"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

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"With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing."

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"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."

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Christopher Plummer, Canadian Actor

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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."

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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"

"With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing."

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