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“Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.”

Persons Running Cases Computer Hundred Property Agency Pounds Fees Databases

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.”

Wish Computer Excellent Servant Efficient Illogical Kirk Mr Spock

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.”

People Problem Speak Differences Drug Computer

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.”

Thinking Social Computer Tools Feminine

Author:Terence McKenna

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.”

Levels Four Computer Machines Eight Symbols Code Genes Telephones Binary

Book:River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.”

Has Beens Computer Stupidity Artificial Intelligence Artificial Elude Elude Us

Book:Holidays in Heck

Source: Holidays in Heck

“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.”

Mind Reason Computer Program Structure Formal

Author:John Searle

“A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.”

Needs Home Reality Computer Structure Broadcasting Terminal

Author:J. G. Ballard

“My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.”

Knows Way Years Long Two Ends Stories Simple Know How Five Tvs Theory Ten Computer Screens Cinema Two Ways Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.”

Art States Months Six Computer Art Is Six Months Obsolete

Author:Carl Mazzocone

“I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.”

Watches Television Computer Cables Headings

Author:Famke Janssen

“They say films they are made by computers. There are computer programs to see statistically what people are more interested in, and they practice computer combinations in these things to try to have more viewers.”

People Trying Made Film Practice Computer Program Combination Viewers

Author:Miguel Gomes

“Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.”

Want Different Computer Hackers

Author:John Badham

“It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.”

Stills Problem Seems Might Faces Week Information Safe Computer Conscious Details Locals Branches Hacked

Author:Geoff Capes

“I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.”

Ifs Feels Broken Paper Computer Accounts Details Statements Transactions Broken Down

Author:Geoff Capes

“Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.”

Knows World Mean Shows Kids Night Given Watches Demand Computer Access Clock Instant Thursday Queues Thursday Night

Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol

“A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don't even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.”

People Looks Use Stuff My Own Minutes Huge Goes On Computer Girlfriend My Girlfriend

Author:Michael Shannon

“The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.”

Social Numbers Records Week Security Dangerous Information Internet Computer Financial Critical Horrible Mess Insecure Social Security Infrastructure Breach Databases Being Insecure

Author:Matt Blaze

“Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Problem Know How Computer Understood Complexes Computer Science Complex Systems

Author:Matt Blaze

“As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.”

Real Use Problem Mistake Computer Impact Complexes Subtle Insecurity Complex Systems Unreliability

Author:Matt Blaze

“What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to tolerate that because if they do intercept our messages, they can't do any harm with it.”

Ifs Able Guy Internet Computer Messages Harm Compromise Tolerate Insecure Bad Guys Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.”

Kind May Certain Difficult Records Crime Computer Evidence Harder Financial Technique Criminals Access Medical Being True Investigation Infrastructure Robust Encryption Medical Records

Author:Matt Blaze

“Computer viruses are alive.”

Alive Computer Viruses Computer Viruses

Author:Stephen Hawking

“What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.”

People Thinking World Want Done Helping Use Jobs Differences Computer Boxes Apples Changing The World Making A Difference Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Steve Jobs

“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.”

Ideas Computer Editing Perfectionist Uptight

Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.”

Hate Computer I Hate Checks Spells Mail Spell Check

Author:David Mamet

“3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.”

Way Choices Media Information Computer Navigation Organizing Things

Author:Bill Gates

“In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.”

Art Made Important Ends Computer Trade Budgets Programming The End Of The Day Versus Athletics Computer Programming Trade Offs

Author:Bill Gates

“The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.”

Computer Window

Author:Bill Gates

“This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.”

Whole Computer Library Phenomenon Amazing Things

Author:Bill Gates

“Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.”

Keys Computer Window Surface

Author:Bill Gates

“Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.”

Ifs Giving Remember Asks Answers Ready Terrible Computer Come Up

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.”

Remember Easy Growing Up Focus Growing Products Industry Computer Standards Heavy Hated Ems Ibm Great Sales Mainframe

Author:Bill Gates

“What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.”

People Moving Sun Computer Window Acquire License Linux Solaris

Author:Bill Gates

“...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.”

“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.”

World Actors Opportunity Cutting Style Television Industry Directors Computer Musician Edges Screens Programming Shelves Amazon Cutting Edge Computer Screen

Author:Bill Maher

“Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.”

Computer Harder Hackers

Author:Ricky Gervais

“The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!”

Ends Play Home Able Can Do Watches Possibility Television Computer Female Phones Mortals Wrestling Vietnam Shopping Integrating Louvre Mortal Kombat

Author:Jim Carrey

“We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.”

Kids Grew Computer Grew Up Damn Old Days Good Old Days

Author:Jon Stewart

“Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.”

Humans Stills Faces Fashion Figures Computer Photography Spread Magazines Ruling Advertisements Caricatures Enhancement Magazine Covers

Author:Camille Paglia

“Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.”

“The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.”

New York Computer Competence

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.”

Guy Class Computer Bullied Macs Dell

Author:Mort Sahl

“You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism.”

Thinking Knows Needs Feels Important Government Order Fighting Know How Records Computer Terrorism Checks Asian

Author:Greg Giraldo

“One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.”

“Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.”

Knows Needs Use Light Turns Know How Computer Plant Phones Nuclear Showers Telephones Turn-on Phone Calls Nuclear Power Dams Power Plants Hoover Hoover Dam

Author:Scott McNealy

“If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Easy Computer Photograph Tricks Digital Manipulation Sophisticated Easy Way Caption Photoshop

Author:Errol Morris

“These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.”

People Young Watches Tvs Computer Clothes Harder These Days Smartphones

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.”

People Facts Computer Alternatives Feds Competitors Fed Up Ipads Dell Working All The Time

Author:Craig Ferguson

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