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Computer Quotes
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
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"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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"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."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."
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"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."
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"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think."
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"While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together."
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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."
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"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions."
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"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."
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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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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"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."
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"Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information."
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"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."
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"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing."
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"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets."
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"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up."
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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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"There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground."
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"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
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"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."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."
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"Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers."
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"I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is."
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"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."
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"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."
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