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Computer Quotes
"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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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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"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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"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"
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"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads."
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"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target."
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"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."
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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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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."
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"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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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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"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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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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"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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"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
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"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"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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"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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"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."
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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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"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."
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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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"Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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