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Computer Quotes
"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"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."
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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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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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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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"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
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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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"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."
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"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."
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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 modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."
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"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."
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"But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."
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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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"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
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"When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left."
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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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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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"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets."
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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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"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
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"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
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"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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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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"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."
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"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."
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"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
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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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