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Computer Quotes
"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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"If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets."
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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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"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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"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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"The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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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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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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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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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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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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"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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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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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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"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."
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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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"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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