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Computer Quotes
"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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"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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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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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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"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"
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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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"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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"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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"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."
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"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
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"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane."
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"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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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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"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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"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."
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"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
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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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