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Computer Quotes
"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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"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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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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"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers."
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"From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system."
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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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"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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"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
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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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"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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"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."
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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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"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
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"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools."
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"At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau."
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"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."
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"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."
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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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"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
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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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"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
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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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